In Defense of the Market Place
May 4, 2018Professor Clark’s “Art, Religion, and the Market Place” takes us into a very interesting world in which Art and Religion (the good guys) are engaged in a deathly struggle with the Market Place (the bad…
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The Dichotomy of Art and Religion
May 4, 2018It is easy to sympathize with Dr. Marden Clark’s essay, “Art, Religion, and the Market Place” — too easy. We are all, I suppose, concerned about the relationship of religion and art, and on the…
Art, Religion and the Market Place
May 4, 2018Art and religion share a common end and a common enemy. The common end is the enrichment of the life of the spirit; the common enemy is the market place. That the end, or at…
The Dream of a Mormon Colony in the Near East
May 4, 2018For almost 130 years, Mormon missionaries have been going to foreign lands. Most of this activity has been in Western European countries where the culture and the political and social institutions were quite similar to…
Free Agency and Freedom — Some Misconceptions
May 4, 2018Free agency is a fundamental theological principle of the Mormon religion. Freedom is a basic goal of the American political system. But they are not the same thing, and Mormons damage both principles through a…
“’I Never Knew a Time When I Did Not Know Joseph Smith”: A Son’s Record Of The Life And Testimony Of Sidney Rigdon
May 4, 2018Dialogue 1.4 (Spring 1966): 15–42
Not very long after the death of Sidney Rigdon, the influential preacher and compatriate to Joseph Smith in the first years of the Church, his son, John Wickliffe Rigdon, wrote an apology for his father.
Hugh Nibley: A Short Bibliographical Note
May 4, 2018The name Hugh Nibley has become common coin of the Mormon realm. The household quality of the name in part depends upon the frequency with which his work appears in the Improvement Era. Since 1948…
Tale of a Tell | James A. Michener, The Source
May 4, 2018The title of the book is appropriate: It is the name of a certain fictional mound or tell—layers on layers of rubble left by successive inhabitants who clustered near a typical water-source in Palestine. From…
Confusion, U.S.A. | John Birch Society, Anarchy, U.S.A
May 4, 2018The John Birch Society is showing a film around called “Anarchy, U.S.A.” I saw it at a meeting of Young Republicans at the College of San Mateo on January 10, 1967. The point of the…
The “Legend” and the “Case” of Joe Hill | Philip S. Foner, The Case of Joe Hill
May 4, 2018Legends often live on simply because believers like them. Some people like them so much they want to prove them. Legends may have their origins in real situations and may have relationships to some facts,…