Being Mormon: An LDS Response
April 18, 2018What 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…
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The Grace of the Court
April 18, 2018The 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…
“In the Heavens Are Parents Single?”: Report No. 1 — Committee on Celestial Demographics
April 18, 2018Since the pioneering work of Orson Pratt, little advancement has been ‘made in the area we will refer to as celestial demography.
An Eternal Quest: Freedom of the Mind
April 18, 2018On 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…
The Effect of Mormon Organizational Boundaries on Group Cohesion
April 18, 2018Approaching 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…
The Stone and the Star: Fantacism, Doubt, and the Problem of Integrity
April 18, 2018In 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…
Evolution and Creation: Two World Views
April 18, 2018Dialogue 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.
Among the Mormons: A Selected Bibliography of Recent Books on Mormons and Mormonism
April 18, 2018Scholarly as well as popular interest in Mormonism continues at an almost unprecedented rate. The Saints remain, as they always have, a peculiar people. Their history, as Winfred E. Garrison aptly observed, “bristles” with controversial…
The Sweetness of Certain Things
April 18, 2018Even now, sometimes, he looks up from what he is doing and stares, unseeing, because some sound, some word, sometimes nothing at all, has brought her back. Her name whispers through his mind, and there…
The Challenge of Theological Translation: New German Versions of the Standard Works
April 18, 2018The 1980 publication of revised German language editions of the LDS Standard Works represents an important legacy for German-speaking Mormons. The story of how and why the new translations arose and how they differ from…