The Love of a Prophet
April 30, 2018Joseph Fielding Smith is a name that has been known to the Latter-day Saints for well over sixty years. His leadership and counsel have been manifest in the leading councils of the Church since his…
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Religion and Morality
April 30, 2018In an open forum discussion on religion, a college student asked the panel: “Can an atheist be moral?” (He was using the word in its broad meaning to include all behavior deemed good or bad).…
Sweet Home
April 30, 2018“I love to go home” said a recent speaker. We in the audience agreed that home should be a place that when you go there you are glad to be there, a place for renewing…
Wives Take Over
April 30, 2018Since previously exposing myself in a sometimes quite personal way in this column I have had the heady and maybe trying experience of having some readers wishing to engage in a dialogue with me via…
Out of Limbo
April 30, 2018Particularly since he had been a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, loss of church membership was shattering to my father’s professional, social and business affairs. One day John W. Taylor was revered as…
The Christian Break
April 30, 2018Christianity is a program for revolution. That’s what I tell my more liberal, anarchic friends in and out of the Church. They never believe me, of course, because they stereotype religious orthodoxy as something rigid,…
Going to Conference
April 30, 2018KSL Radio reaches east barely twenty miles past Rock Springs, Wyoming. That’s where we were first able to make out the words of Elder Spencer W. Kimball at 11:30 Friday morning, October 6. His voice…
The Sterling M. McMurring Papers
April 30, 2018Dr. Sterling Moss McMurrin needs no introduction to Dialogue readers. He is one of the Church’s most outstanding scholars, and is a nationally recognized administrator, educator, and philosopher. He has been a member of the…
Among the Mormons: A Survey of Current Literature
April 30, 2018“Among the Mormons” is Dialogue’s ongoing effort to keep its readers abreast of Mormon bibliography. Three times a year we present bibliographical listings containing, in separate columns, theses and dissertations, books and related publications, and periodical articles. This issue’s listing contains books, pamphlets and records that have come to our attention during 1971 and 1972.
Modern Biblical Scholarship | P. R. Ackroyd and C. F. Evans, eds., The Cambridge History of the Bible, Vol. I: From the Beginnings to Jerome
April 30, 2018With the publication of this volume, the three-part Cambridge History of the Bible is now complete. That this volume, the first in the chronological sequence, should be the final number published is a testimony both…