When Apostle Lorenzo Snow was called in 1849 to “establish a mission in Italy and wherever the spirit should direct,”[1] he was initially optimistic that the Waldensians, a Protestant group in the Kingdom of Sardinia…
Mormonism: We believe men will be punished for their own sins and not for Adam’s transgression.Humanism: We believe people must take personal responsibility for their individual behavior. The editor has carefully selected several outstanding papers…
One late afternoon just before sunset, the Prophet with white hair like the mane of a lion was walking by the sea with his friend, Fernando. They walked and talked about many things as the…
Dialogue 36.1 (2003): 89–108
A claim is frequently made that science and religion are not incompatible. The contention is that science and religion can be made to co-exist by compartmentalization, that is, by carefully limiting the scope of each so that neither intrudeson the sphere of influence of the other. Such an approach is folly.
who sit singly, as I do, on unkempt
beds in dingy small rooms among their own
litter and cast-off clothes; who slump
against walls watching late-nite TV instead
i too consider how my days are spent
and fret but little when like autumn’s bright
orange maples they fade and fall, my sight
is good enough to burn those maples, scent
Dialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 15–40
It would seem that Mormons who have believed for over a hundred years in the real existence of the Goddess, the Mother in Heaven, should be far ahead of other Christians in developing a theology of God the Mother. However, our belief in her as a real person puts us at a disadvantage. If the Goddess is merely a symbol of deity, as the male God is also a symbol, then certainly God can be pictured as either male or female with equal validity.
The songs mutate
like a virus in my blood:
“I Am a Child of
God,” “Firm As the Mountains
