The process is as invariable and explicable as the engineered logic of a machine. Yet for all its biological transparence, to Roger Talmage, educated, institutionally devout, and forty-two, the quite ordinary adjustment of his eyes…
A few months ago we were saddened to learn that Asael Carlyle I Lambert had passed away. He was ninety years old and living in Los Angeles. Dr. Lambert was one of the giants to…
Dialogue 17.1 (Spring 1984): 106–112
To be a Mormon — in the generic use of that term — is an attitude: an attitude of uniqueness — of peculiarity — • which makes itself known in behavior, in beliefs, in relationships, in inquiries and, most of all, in religious expression.
What does it mean to be a Mormon? Is it what you believe or how you I act? “Both,” of course, is the easy and immediate answer, but the question deserves closer scrutiny. No longer…
The night before, I had felt a sudden need to read the scriptures, something I hadn’t done in nearly three months. I stayed up until 2:30 and was asleep when Lynn called from Oakland at…
Since the pioneering work of Orson Pratt, little advancement has been ‘made in the area we will refer to as celestial demography.
On 13 May 1969, Hugh B. Brown, a member of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, addressed the student body of Brigham Young University. He was eighty-five years of…
Approaching the Church in organizational terms requires a perspective ‘different from focusing on its spiritual role and mission. The German sociologist Georg Simmel framed the problem in this way: “On the one hand, religion stands…
In 1831, a revelation given through Joseph Smith echoing the book of [Daniel, characterized the gospel set forth by the restored Church as a veritable monolith: “The keys of the kingdom of God are committed…
Dialogue 17.1 (Spring 1984): 44–50
The big question for me in this controversy is whether freedom of inquiry, with the agonizing ambiguity that accompanies it, will be sacrificed to the interests of those who demand certainty in the hope of salvation.