By D. Michael Quinn D. Michael Quinn is an independent scholar in Rancho Cucamonga, Southern California. His first ancestral Mormon mother, Lydia Bilyeu Workman, died in Nauvoo on 30 September 1845, just days after she was burned out of her farmhouse by mobs. Her five youngest children were aged six to eighteen. It is extremely …
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Randomly Deleted Files: Stories and Poems from the Mormon Unconscious
Randomly Deleted Files: Stories and Poems from the Mormon Unconscious Like strangers on a train, you are invited to board this fast-flying vestibule of intrigue, danger, and comic coincidence. Two fiction writers and two poets read from their works-speeding us on a white bullet through patient, poverty-stricken, and opulent India; on into the recesses of …
Why we Need the Atonement: Repentance, Forgiveness, and Freedom from Sin, Death, and the Devil
Why we Need the Atonement: Repentance, Forgiveness, and Freedom from Sin, Death, and the Devil The doctrine of the Atonement is central in Christian theology. The atoning sacrifice of Christ makes it possible for us to be reconciled with God; without the Atonement all humanity would be lost and in bondage to sin, death, and …
The Earth: Birth, Life, Death, And Beyond From Science And The Scriptures
The Earth: Birth, Life, Death, And Beyond From Science And The Scriptures