Song for his Left Ear
April 24, 2018for Harlow Soderborg Clark, surgically deaf
By sheer nerve you’ve gone Van Gogh one better:
cut your ear off from your brain, but
left it blooming in your hair.
You’d auditioned city living just so long—
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An Official Position
April 24, 2018Dialogue 12.4 (Winter 1979): 90–92
In postscript let me say that I have been accused of forging this letter and of taking unfair advantage of President Smith. Let the readers judge. I am personally grateful that the Church has not been caught in the position of taking a stand that might very well prove to be wrong in the future
On Mormonism, Moral Epidemics, Homeopathy and Death from Natural Causes
April 24, 2018These three brief reprints provide interesting insights into early Mormon medicine. The first piece, from an essay entitled “Millerism” in The American Journal of Insanity (January 1845), although not directed at Mormons is relevant to…
Quackery and Mormons: A Latter-day Dilemma
April 24, 2018The following interview is with a man tried by the state of Utah as a “quack.”[1] His practice is based on massage, herbs, health foods and in reading the iris of the eyes. The trial…
The New Biology and Mormon Theology
April 24, 2018Exegetes as willing and capable as Orson Pratt to combine empirical and theological insights have all but disappeared from the Mormon scene. His successors have retained the enthusiastic optimism of early Mormonism, but they have not replaced the empirical beliefs of the nineteenth century with the more correct information which is available to us now.
The New Biology and Mormon Theology
April 24, 2018The New Biology and Mormon Theology
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The Holding Forth of Jeddy Grant
April 24, 2018As the story goes, and as countless Mormon preachers and teachers have told it, embellished it and retold it for generations, it was a classic confrontation between a conspiracy of falsehood and the heroism of…
The Supreme Court, Polygamy and the Enforcement of Morals in Nineteenth Century America
April 24, 2018Dialogue 12.4 (Winter 1979): 46–61
Clayton discusses the history behind The Supreme Court Case Reynolds v. United States (1876), and shares his opinion about what was going on between members in Salt Lake and the federal government.
How Firm a Foundation! What Makes It So
April 24, 2018This talk is supposed to have some reference to the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Restoration of the Church. One hundred and fifty years is not as long as you think—the Lord has not delayed his…