Wanted: Additional Outlets for Idealism
May 1, 2018Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. We grow old only by deserting our ideals. . . . You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your…
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The Coming of the Manifesto
May 1, 2018Dialogue 5.3 (Fall 1970): 11–25
Godfrey describes the steps leading to Wilford Woodruff issuing the First Manifesto.
Thoughts on Mormon “Neoorthodoxy”
May 1, 2018The two following commentaries on O. Kendall White’s “The Transformation of Mormon Theology” (Summer 1970) were received as Letters to the Editor, but due to their length we felt they would receive more attention here.
A Footnote to the Problem of Dating the First Vision
May 1, 2018Both sides of the current debate over the date of the First Vision have tried to establish the time when members of the Smith family joined the Presbyterian church in Palmyra. The primary source for…
A Survey of Current Literature
May 1, 2018Over a year ago this column called attention to three new journals which in one way or another would be of interest to Mormons or bibliophiles of Mormonism. The journals noted were Mormon History, The Carpenter: Reflections on Mormon Life and The Western Historical Quarterly. Mormon History and The Carpenter are of unique Mormon interest and the latter journal has published a third issue, the contents of which are reported below. Mormon History (a journal of reprints) is now in its second volume.
The New English Bible: Three Views: A Literary View
May 1, 2018There is no use discussing the Bible as literature (whether the King James, the New English Bible, or any other version) with anyone who doesn’t read it as literature but merely searches its pages for…
The New English Bible: Three Views: The New Testament
May 1, 2018Over a score of years ago a committee of English Protestant scholars planned a major Bible translation, conceived in concern for their age of apathy and dedicated to the proposition that contemporary language was essential.…
The New English Bible: Three Views: The Old Testament
May 1, 2018The New English Bible was produced to enhance modern readers’ understanding of the Bible’s content. The recommendation of the multidenominational committee that initiated the translation project in October of 1946 was “that a completely new…
A Black Mormon Perspective | Alan Gerald Cherry, It’s You and Me Lord! (My Experiences as a Black Mormon)
May 1, 2018This is a brief autobiography of Alan Cherry, a young black man who grew up in New York City, entered the Air Force in Texas after a year and a half of college, was court…
Dramatic Christianity | Daniel Berrigan, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
May 1, 2018Thus begins Father Daniel Berrigan’s poem, “The Passion of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,” which in some ways is also a poem about his own passion. On 17 May 1968, prompted by conscience and a courage similar to that of Bonhoeffer, Daniel and Phillip Berrigan, Jesuit priests, went with seven of their friends into draft board number 33 at Catonsville, Maryland, where they confiscated 378 individual draft files.