Since its 1922 publication, Joseph Fielding Smith’s Essentials in Church History has been regarded by Mormons as the standard one volume account. Even though it was continually expanded and updated through 28 editions (most recently…
In 1831 Joseph Smith announced the Law of Consecration and Stewardship. This law was revealed, according to the Prophet, to establish the social and economic basis of the Restoration on the same scriptural foundations as…
Dialogue 10.4 (Fall 1977): 130–132
MacMurray cautioned against people labelling themselves or others “homosexuals.” He argued that it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy and that it was an impediment to a cure. This would become a major theory of Elder Boyd K. Packer and others who instituted a cultural taboo on the term that lasted until the early 2000s when self-labelling became somewhat more tolerated. This doctrine has its roots in reparative therapy theories.
The following excerpts, from the Preface and Chapter 1 of the first edition, are also found in almost identical form in the commended 1910 edition.
It will come as news to all Latter-day Saints that after many years of deep scholarly research the Hill Cumorah has finally been located—at the north end of Bird Island in Utah Lake. Those familiar…
Eleven years ago, Dialogue and Ralph W. Hansen began an association which would last a decade and produce nearly forty Among the Mormons columns. His painstaking contribution stands as a monument to dedication and diligence.…
The little fish of life
Came unready to the land
His lungs unequal to the task
Of elemental air.
“Since we became civilized,” she said
in her British voice,
as we gazed on the artifacts
of the last King—
Three brass-skinned boys of Box Creek Reservation
in new Grass Valley Mercantile pants
black hair cut straight above their wary eyes
moved soft as any hunted cottontail
Typhoon rains were pounding the house for the fifth consecutive night. I was preparing for bed with a candle and a bowl of water when I heard urgent feet on the stairs. Belen Rivera, our…