For 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 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…
Dialogue 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.
The 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…
The 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…
The 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…
Legends 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,…
I “Solomon? Since I talked with him I’ve thoughtAgain about trying to make a go of it In Idaho. As I say, this rainy weather In Oregon is looking better and better to me.The first time I…
give shouting that he swallowed up the moat.(the serpent he devoured and siphoned in)and that he steered the river with no boat. give singing that he made our dusk, a float.(our night become a sphere…
In Professor Snell’s article and in the response to it by Professor Sperry, one finds the work of two committed members of the Church, who nevertheless appear to differ greatly on their interpretation of the…