In 1987 Americans celebrated the 200th anniversary of the United States Constitution. Topics previously confined to legal and philosophical journals became the subject of more common discourse. Nowhere was this development more evident than in…
Until recently, attempts to vindicate the central claim of the Book of Mormon—that it is a divinely inspired book based on the history of an ancient culture—have focused mainly on external evidences. Such attempts have…
It was a Saturday, but it was someone’s birthday, and so against my better judgment I went shopping with several of my children at Price Savers in Provo, Utah. The parking lot was crowded, almost…
Unfortunately but undeniably, the practice of polygamy is closely associated in the popular mind with the Mormons, fascinating both scholars and casual readers, generating a plethora of anecdotal studies, and resulting in many oversimplifications and…
I wish to thank Charles Boyd for bringing to light some additional material relevant to the topics discussed in my article on science and Mormonism. I will briefly respond to some of the issues he…
I was stimulated, concerned, and saddened simultaneously as I read David Bailey’s article in DIALOGUE (Summer 1988) and reread Richard Pearson Smith’s Spring 1986 article, both discussing science and the LDS Church. I was stimulated…
On 21 May 1839, Joseph Smith introduced an unusual entry in his journal history, writing, “To show the feelings of that long scattered branch of the house of Israel, the Jews, I here quote a…
Someone went shooting rabbits last night
blasting any flesh too slow to dodge.
I track the powdered ground until I toe
a scarlet gash melted to concrete.
José Luís was sick. That was why Michelle and Renata stopped by to see him on their way home from missionary zone meeting. They walked with Nielsen, his companion, who had gone to the meeting…