A few years ago while visiting a used bookstore in the Old City (Gamla Stan) section of Stockholm, I asked the proprietor whether he had any materials about Mormons. He brought out a small […]
[…] Brigham Young, and one of the strongest public advocates of polygamy, was quoted in the New York World, 19 November 1869, as saying, “A successful polygamous wife must regard her husband with indifference, and […]
[…] citizens, especially the poor, a sense of self-worth and a sense of belonging. In a constantly changing world, one in which the future seemed so uncertain, his followers found an identity in a community […]
[…] short story offered in America. For Darrell, his “life is about writing and what it means”-inventing a world, rather than mirroring one—and he hopes “to write stories that will break your heart.” Douglas: What […]
[…] conveys a certain rationale about the evolution of Smith’s religious thought as he seeks to “recover the world of a prophet” (xxii). “The signal feature of life was his sense of being guided by […]
My involvement in biblical studies has also awakened in me an interest in other holy books. In the 1970s, I had the opportunity to do some work on the Qur’an, a fascinating combination of […]
[…] from how they affect her wardrobe and, possibly, her love life. The truth is, there’s an entire world of questioning and discovery and connection and depth and grace (a term that Baker has no […]
George Handley’s Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River practices theology the way a doctor practices CPR—not as a secondhand theory but as a chest-cracking, lung-inflating, life-saving intervention. The book models […]
Mormonism, Adventism, and Jehovah’s Witnesses are the three great American religions of the nineteenth century.Although they started out as radical groups led by charismatic prophets, each ultimately followed a different trajectory of opposition and […]
[…] I’m Brother Jake.” An image of a smiling white man in white shirt and tie flashes across the screen as I watch yet another edition of the “Brother Jake” YouTube video channel. Brother Jake, […]