Divorce
April 14, 2018With the heat at the end of August,
I am glad I sleep alone
And roll over on your side of the bed
Where the sheets are still cool.
DiaBLOGue
Lindon Cannery, November 12, 1982
April 14, 2018These are apples picked by the pure
In heart, end of the harvest apples,
Juice apples — but apples.
And if a worm, or mold or frost
Christ and the Constitution: Toward a Mormon Jurisprudence
April 14, 2018In 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…
Why Nephi Killed Laban: Reflections on the Truth of the Book of Mormon
April 14, 2018Until 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…
Top Kingdom: The Mormon Race for the Celestial Gates
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Living the Principle | Jessie L. Embry, Mormon Polygamous Families: Life in the Principle
April 14, 2018Unfortunately 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…
Reply to “Forever Tentative”
April 14, 2018I 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…
Forever Tentative
April 14, 2018I 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…
Jews in the Columns of Joseph’s Times and Seasons
April 14, 2018On 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…
