Enter Ye into My Rest
April 17, 2018When you go so far
it is hard
to turn your head around
and see
where you’ve been.
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Serving or Converting? A Panel: Person-to-Person Service
April 17, 2018Going into all the world to serve others on an individual basis is an opportunity for creative, thoughtful expression. An individual may render service on behalf of an organization or may act independently of any…
Serving or Converting? A Panel: To Serve, then Teach
April 17, 2018I would like to try to lay a religious foundation for the point of view I am going to take regarding serving or converting. I see five basic dimensions to being religious. Some people feel…
Historiography and the New Mormon History: A Historian’s Perspective
April 17, 2018Seventeen years ago, Moses Rischin, Fulbright Professor of History at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, in a review essay first used the phrase, “the New Mormon History.” By it, he meant to categorize the…
Meaning Still Up for Grabs | Roger D. Launius, Zion’s Camp: Expedition to Missouri, 1834
April 17, 2018Firmly established in Mormon history is Joseph Smith’s 1834 crusade from Kirt land, Ohio, to the borders of Jackson County, Missouri, to “redeem Zion.” Its purpose was to assist Latter-day Saints lately driven from their…
The World of Evangelism | Carol Flake, Redemptorama: Culture, Politics, and the New Evangelicalism
April 17, 2018As Carol Flake observes, 1976 seemed to be “the year of the evangelical” as the media focused its attention on Jimmy Carter, a born-again Christian who taught Sun day School in his small Georgia hometown…
B.H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon | Studies of the Book of Mormon
April 17, 2018Dialogue 19.4 (Winter 1988):157–192
The major problem with the “Study” is that, if one takes it as anything more than an analysis of possibilities, it must be viewed as an example of the genetic fallacy (that something can be explained solely by its cultural context).
Among the Mormons: A Survey of Recent Articles
April 17, 2018For nearly a decade, since Mary Bradford approached me early one Sunday morning with the exciting opportunity of becoming part of the DIALOGUE staff, “Among the Mormons” has been a dear friend. Preparing this, my…
The Third Nephite
April 17, 2018Shortly after sunrise Otis Wadby was driving to work in Circleville. He stayed nights with his son in Junction, his wife having expelled him from his home in Circleville because he had taken up with…
Of Quiffs, Quarks, and God
April 17, 2018Science is full of strange twists and unexpected developments—so many, in fact, that we are rarely surprised anymore by its most recent revelations. But one of the biggest scientific surprises of the twentieth century has…