Continued from Part I Nowhere in the Epistle to the Romans or anywhere else in the Pauline canon, nor in the Gospels (which were written later), nor in any New Testament text is same-sex attraction or homosexual sex specifically condemned. What is condemned is rejecting the love of God, since such rejection, Paul argues, …
Category: Issue 165–December 2011
An LDS Rationale for a Humane Immigration Policy
By Jen Smyers Migration is not only the story of the 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States and the 24 million forcibly displaced persons worldwide. It is also the story of Adam and Eve; Lehi’s family; the Israelites; Mary, Joseph, and Jesus; and many members of the Church of Jesus Christ of …
Is a Rameumptom Just a Rameumptom?: A Freudian Approach to The Sugar Beet
By Mathew N. Schmalz I. DO MORMONS LAUGH? With the success of The Book of Mormon musical, Elna Baker’s memoir The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance, and the editorial cartoons proliferating in the wake of Mormon presidential candidates’ campaigns, making fun of Mormons seems to have hit the big time.1 Some consider this …
People: Issue 165
Deceased. Emeritus Seventy RONALD E. POELMAN, 83. A lawyer and successful businessman, Poelman was tapped to become a general authority in 1978. In October 1984, he gave a general conference speech titled “The Gospel and the Church,” in which he argued that “as we increase our knowledge, acceptance and application of gospel principles, we become …
Grove Street Extension
By David G. Pace It lies on my desk at home, an old copy of Shakespeare’s plays: its binding brittle, the pages yellowed with age. Frank gave it to me in the summer of 1981. His old house stood atop a slight hill on Grove Street Extension in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He had spent …
News: Media Focuses on Romney, His Faith
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Trusting Smallness in an Infinity-squared Universe
By Frances Lee Menlove Several years ago, I attended the retirement gathering for a prominent physicist. In the middle of his brief speech, he dramatically held out both arms and said: “The most amazing thing, the most awesome thing, in my entire lifetime has been the revolution in astronomy—it is a revolution that is …
The Literary Concerns of My Church: Copyright and Control in Mormonism–Part I
By Stephen McIntyre Above a photocopier on the Brigham Young University campus hangs a sign that asks: “Are You COPYRIGHTEOUS?”1 followed by a passage from the Doctrine & Covenants: “Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of …
The Literary Concerns of My Church: Copyright and Control in Mormonism–Part II
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Very Careless in His Utterances: Editing, Correcting, and Censoring Conference Addresses–Part I
By Joseph Geisner Or right-click to download the audio file here: “Very Careless in His Utterances”: Editing, Correcting, and Censoring Conference Addresses At the Sunday morning session of the 3 October 2010 General Conference, President Boyd K. Packer gave a talk titled, “Cleansing the Inner Vessel.” However, the talk as published at …