My struggles in a Mormon hell: The bizarre rituals of her faith made Deborah Laake feel a freak. She tells Paddy Burt what happened when she rebelledDeborah Laake grew up believing that her passport to the higher levels of Mormon heaven was marriage to 'the One', her predestined marriage ...
The importance of the priesthood is firmly demonstrated throughout the Book of Mormon. For Book of Mormon authors, this divine authority was necessary to preach the gospel, to organize and establish the Lord’s church, and to perform sacred priesthood ordinances. Early in the Book of Mormon, ...
“So, there I sat in the office chair in the dark with my mother in the room. I had the initial thought that this could be a special experience. I began to question if I had the faith to have a special experience. I now realize that I thought I needed faith to see her with my ...
(Protestantism) Methodism: A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate. Priest A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish Deacon (freemasonry) A junior lodge officer. Priest (Mormonism) the highest office in the ...
Question: Within the short space of one chapter, the boy prophet Samuel speaks the phrase “Here am I” five times.[ii]Is there something more than meets the eye in his repeated reply? Summary: Yes, when spoken in a spirit of meekness in response to a call from the Lord, it is not...
In the Mormon Fundamentalist community, there are two competing ideas about what love is and what it should not be. Both ideas are salient and often contentious, as the logic of one can undermine the logic of the other. The official ideal is noble or harmonious love and thought to have a...
On the other side, there is evidence that the Mormon alt-right wackos are indeed doing some victory laps and using the musket talk somewhat menacingly online. This “DezNat” wannabe secret combination of Mormon alt-righters is a scourge. Anything that revs those...
Byline: Elise Soukup and Jon Meacham As current prophet of the LDS Church, Gordon B...Soukup, EliseMeacham, Jon