Part I: Most Latter-day Saints read the Book of Mormon as a historical narrative. As David Hume predicted, they feel a strong connection to the actors and events, which helps them internalize the doctrines. But when some Saints lose their faith in the historicity of the Book of Mormon, they feel compelled to abandon it …
Speaker: Rachel Mabey Whipple
HEAVENLY MOTHER AND THE LETTER OF THE LAW
President Hinckley has told us that Jesus Christ forbids our praying to Heavenly Mother. But heavenly parents who refuse communication with their children seem unworthy of their status as gods, and a mother who will not hear or acknowledge her children is not a helpful role model for Latterday Saints. Therefore, there must be some …
DO GOOD ONLINE FENCES MAKE GOOD LDS NEIGHBORS?
LDS-interest blogspace is divided into many different communities: Mormon feminists, Mormon mommies, Borderlanders (or New Order Mormons), interfaith discussion blogs, Nothing Wavering, Outer Blogness, the core of the Bloggernacle, and probably others. All of these communities overlap and communicate with one another, but they also do various types of boundary- maintenance to decide who’s in …
MULTIPLY AND REPLENISH: POPULATION CONTROL AND YOUR ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
D&C 104:17 states, “For the earth is full, and there is enough and to spare.” What did that mean in 1834, when this revelation was given and world population was just over a billion? What does it mean today, when seven billion people live on the earth? Global population is expected to reach between 7.5 …
Practicing Stewardship In A Consumer Culture
As our testimony of the gospel gives meaning and motivation to our relations with other people, so too our sense of divinely appointed stewardship informs all of our interactions with the material world, both manufactured and naturally created. We must strive to live as responsible stewards, making prudent use of resources, cultivating abundance in our …
Craft, Creation, And Creed: Frivolity, Utility, And Spirituality
Working with and creating textiles has been women’s province for millennia, to the point that the matrilineal side of a family is known as the Holly Welker, Sara Burlingame, Obadiah Schwarzkopf, Rachel Mabey Whipple