Joseph Smith, Sr., Dreams of His Namesake
April 17, 2018Vermont, Autumn 1805
And the boy, the milky angel said,
will be like the wild rain
that shatters the crops and spins the brittle stalks
end upon end.
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Friends of West Africa: An Opportunity for Service
April 17, 2018The leadership of President Kimball was usually gentle but generated profound ripples for good. His enunciation in 1978 of the revelation granting the priesthood to the blacks may be characterized as a tidal wave. It has…
Elohim and Jehovah in Mormonism and the Bible
April 17, 2018Currently, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints defines the Godhead as consisting of three separate and distinct personages or Gods: Elohim, or God the Father; Jehovah, or Jesus Christ, the Son of God both…
Sonnet for Spring
April 17, 2018there’s honeysuckle in the exhaust, a fine green
beard between walks, spring softens us
again, now we confess the earth is a drum
encased in living skin, not concrete,
Sign or Scripture: Approaches to the Book of Mormon
April 17, 2018Dialogue 19.1 (Spring 1986): 69–75
How does the Book of Mormon present the basic doctrines of the gospel? What role should the Book of Mormon play in our religious and intellectual lives?
Beyond Literalism
April 17, 2018Mormonism has, in my view, a serious theological problem with its understanding of scripture. The problem lies in the tendency to read the scriptures uncritically, and it exists in both the LDS and RLDS traditions.…
Living with Alzheimer’s Disease: A Wife’s Perspective
April 17, 2018“Frank, please sit up here,” I pleaded, patting the doctor’s examination table and urging my husband forward. I was trying to be patient. By nature I move fast, and holding myself back to accommodate his slowness…
Utah’s Ethnic Legacy
April 17, 2018As I look at you graduates, I recognize in your faces, full-blown in some, slight in others, the ethnic people of your past. Among you sit men and women whose sorrowing ancestors were summarily sent to…
Rebaptism: A Manual
April 17, 2018When the first letter comes,
a quiet verdict,
water sheds its sense:
coastlines stiffen,
An Echo from the Foothills: To Marshal the Forces of Reason
April 17, 2018I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. —Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800 I offer here a personal response to the increasingly stern demands…