1 Nephi 1-5: why Nephi killed Laban
. Chapter 1: 1 Nephi 1- 5 . Mormonism saw itself involuntarily drawn into the wider debate of fundamentalism and religious motivated violence by Krakauer’s book “Under the Banner of Heaven: the Story of a Violent Faith” published in 2003. At the core of Krakauer’s argument lies the double murder committed in 1984 by Ron … Read more
To the Sound of Guns: LDS Apostle on Civil Rights
Dallin H. Oaks, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, gave an address on religious freedom yesterday at Brigham Young University – Idaho. One of his remarks attracted wide media attention because he compared voter-intimidation of African-Americans during the civil rights movement in the South with the harassment some LDS church members experienced following a … Read more
come, come, ye saints – sacred emigration
. . Through email conversations with a great friend of mine, I have come to reflect on the tranformational theme of sacred emigration in Mormonism. Here is an excerpt from an email he wrote to me on the prospects of change within the “wagon circles” of our LDS home church: . I’ve been thinking about … Read more
