Enduring
April 19, 2018Edgar to Gloucester in King Lear: Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. June 1982 I grew up in a safe valley. The years five through twelve, when we are most sensuously…
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Toward a More Perfect Order Within: Being the Confessions of an Unregenerate But Not Unrepentant Mistruster of Mormon Literature
April 19, 2018A title like that might indicate that I’m already half through. But it needed to be long to convey something of a lurid past that calls for “confessions.” “More perfect order within” suggests both the…
New Light on Old Egyptiana: Mormon Mummies 1848-71
April 19, 2018 Dialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 74 – 90
This paper attempts to throw some new light on the history of this Mormon connected Egyptiana since 1848 (the close of the Mormon era in Nauvoo) and to suggest how and where more of these antiquities might be found.
Faithful History/Secular Faith
April 19, 2018I readily admit that the topic of “faithful history” may gain more by praying for the demise of the debate than by trying to provide life-extending arguments or by seeking to resurrect it. However, I…
Magic and the Supernatural in Utah Folklore
April 19, 2018No branch of study, academic or popular, penetrates as deeply into man’s intuitive life or mirrors his contemplative self as clearly as folklore. Folklore lays bare man’s myriad fears and anxieties, while at the same…
Missiology and Mormon Missions
April 19, 2018Missiology is the scholary study of missions. In an attempt to explain religious interactions, missiology uses an interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon fields such as theology, sociology, anthropology, history, geography, communications, and statistics. Missiology, of necessity,…
The 1981 RLDS Hymnal: Songs More Brightly Sung
April 19, 2018Dialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 33–42
About ten years ago the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints decided that its 1956 hymnal was already becoming out of date. An RLDS Hymnal Committee was commissioned to begin work on a new volume, and the result, Hymns of the Saints, was published in 1981. Hymns of the Saints is more than just a revision or reediting of the 1956 hymnal; out of 501 hymns and responses, more than a third are new to this collection.
“Moonbeams From a Larger Lunacy”: Poetry in the Reorganization
April 19, 2018Dialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 22–31
This study addresses poetry within the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and defines an RLDS poet as someone who belongs to the RLDS church and who has published poetry in some form or other.
Leaders to Managers: The Fatal Shift
April 19, 2018Twenty-three years ago on this same occasion I gave the opening prayer in which I said: “We have met here today clothed in the black robes of a false priesthood … ” Many have asked…
More on Kirtland | Milton V. Backman, Jr., A Profile of Latter-day Saints of Kirtland, Ohio, and Members of Zion’s Camp 1830-1839: Vital Statistics and Sources, and Anne B. Prusha, A History of Kirtland, Ohio
April 18, 2018For many, Kirtland is viewed as the genesis of Mormonism as a viable church and perhaps the best test case of Joseph Smith’s prophetic claims and personal integrity. As such, interest in the history of…