In the field of Mormon history, perhaps more so than in other areas of historical inquiry, some excellent contributions have been made by “amateurs,” as the holders of the Ph.D. are inclined to call those…
Robert Flanders, an exceptionally articulate and perceptive insider in RLDS matters, introduced readers of the Autumn, 1970, issue of this journal to the pilot issue of Dialogue’s RLDS cousin, Courage. What follows is an analysis…
It is not without some irony that one considers both the format and source of this collection of materials—the almost apologetic tone in which both the collection and so many of its individual pieces present…
The messages come early in the morning,
by means of a dream
(but young men have their visions),
or struggle towards decision through a stream of indecisions,
or real — or imagined — pain
The argument holds:
the love of God is lonely as time
and the lines of the world are drawn precise and clean:
nothing transcends the dark but the dark.
Still you come to me in the night
Walking with bare feet whispering
And still you force me to come round corners that could wait,
To face a minor premise I am avoiding.
Ave Maria, plena gratia!
One street west, in the ward chapel,
I reinforce with paper thimble
of water and shard of bread
my bond to God:
Dialogue 6.1 (Spring 1971): 46–58
Since around the time as the martyrdom, Joseph Smith has been compared to Muhammad who was the founder of Islam. Green and Goldrup presents evidence for how Islam and the church are different.
Dialogue 6.1 (Spring 1971): 37–45
Thomasson argues that because the church did not give in to the federal government regarding Renyolds v United States, even though it might not look like it, he believes the Manifesto was a victory.
