Commerce
April 14, 2018Sitting naked by the pool I can see
many more trees than the two very tall
ones visible from my kitchen window
as shadows in the early morning. If
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Baptism for the Dead: Comparing RLDS and LDS Perspectives
April 14, 2018Dialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 99–105
Underwood discusses why two religions who share the same exact upbringing have different opinions about the temple rituals.
“What Has Become of Our Fathers?” Baptism for the Dead at Nauvoo
April 14, 2018Dialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 85–97
Chronicling the history of baptizing for the dead during the Nauvoo Period, this article introduces the practice from the first baptizers to how it was altered after Joseph Smith’s death.
An Ambivalent Rejection: Baptism for the Dead and the Reorganized Church Experience
April 14, 2018Dialogue 23.2 (1990): 61–83
Launius shares how the Reorganized Church has changed their stance on baptisms for the dead.
Fundamentalist Attitudes Toward the Church: The Sermons of Leroy S. Johnson
April 14, 2018Dialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 39–60
Driggs shares what an early fundamentalist leader by the name of Leory S. Johnson taught about the church and polygamy.
The Women of Fundamentalism: Short Creek, 1953
April 14, 2018Dialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 15–38
Bradley describes how even after the Short Creek Raids happened, the women there still believed in plural marriage.
You Heal
April 14, 2018One morning you wake
and everything works
and almost nothing hurts.
After seven months of returning
Things Happen
April 14, 2018Things happen. Early in the world you travel into them. One day
You rise without prayer in a far camp and silently hurry away.
Having slept under stars and still breathing the greyed fire,
Who would take time to suppose this the middle of a lifetime?
Nothing New Under the Sun | Mary Farrell Bednarowski, New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America
April 14, 2018While it is beyond the capability of any book to demonstrate the infinite capacity of human belief, there seems nevertheless to be little reason to doubt the existence of such infinitude, and Mary Farrell Bednarowski…
The Papers of the Prophet | Dean C. Jessee, ed., The Papers of Joseph Smith: Volume I, Autobiographical and Historical Writings
April 14, 2018It takes a meticulous person to edit historical documents. No amount of effort should be too much to obtain the stray fact, to check the transcription, the con text, and the details of an edited…