MJ and her adoptive mother asked the AP to use only her initials in part because videos of her abuse posted by her father are still circulating on the internet. The AP does not publish the names of sexual abuse survivors without their consent. William Maledon, anArizonaattorney ...
Many mormons don’t dare stop paying tithing, because they believe misfortune will visit them if they do. The randomness in my life didn’t change at all after I stopped paying it. What did happen is that I gained a 10% raise and developed an internal locus of control. I worry about ...
And as a matter of history, and as a matter of Jesus’s divine promises in Matthew 16, we say no. And Mormons say yes. So I would start with that because there’s many Mormons who will say, well, it’s either us or Catholics who are right. Because either the church went into ap...
he might have won Jennifer Aniston. The rumors are thick that the two of them are an item. Liberal “fact-checker” Snopes says there’s “no evidence” of it, even as they reference numerous insiders who swear it’s true. (When Snopes wants something to be false, the evidence...
These are in many cases things you and I could do a little differently and maybe it wouldn’t bear some obvious fruit in our lifetime, but would have an enormous influence. And I think all three of these are still relevant today, and they are beginning with step number one, convert a...
Mormons remarkably relevant and accurate description of the ways in which corrupt and often murderous megalomaniacs like Amalickiah or Gadianton manage to gain wealth and power as they operate through various illicit means such as murderous gangs or “bands,” networ...
Claire Potter:And some activists must overcome theology. In the Mormon Church, the soul does not enter the human body until birth, so to imagine abortion as killing a soul, Mormons must override their own theology. Jennifer Holland:There are a lot of people who believe that fetal politics re...
Mormons, or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), strongly support burial over cremation, although the church allows cremation in cultures where it's customary. The importance and sacrament of the body, as well as the fact that groups that opposed the church advocated ...
The verdicts on the new Broadway musical-comedy “Shucked” are in, and the critics have asked you to lend them your ears — so to speak — as they’ve cobbled together their reactions to the possible sleeper hit. (Sorry, but once you’ve seen the production, it may take you ...
However, groups that most scholars of religion within Latin America label as "Para-Christian" or "Es- chatological" (i.e., the Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Seventh-day Adventists) are tallied separately from the numbers for other non-Catho- lic Christians in Mexico. In Chile the ...