Ice Fishing
March 29, 2018“Why you want to go out and sit all day on the ice just to catch a fish, I’ll never know. Ed, you’re going to freeze to death one of these days, or catch pneumonia.” …
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Down on Batlle’s Farm
March 29, 2018There’s an exercise in contrasts a few blocks east of Belloni up among the Pacheco streets north of Danubio in the barrio of Piedras Blancas. Former President of the Republic Jose Batlle had a farm…
Parallelomania and the Study of Latter-day Scripture: Confirmation, Coincidence, or the Collective Unconscious?
March 29, 2018Dialogue 33.2 (Summer 2001):139–173
This article looks at some of the ways parallels have been used by Nibley in the exposition of latter-day scripture, the types of parallels employed, and some of the problems that arise from this comparative exercise.
Ritual as Theology and as Communication
March 29, 2018Theology is usually considered an intellectual activity for philosophers and educated religionists. Actually, most humans discuss the same sub jects, but at a different level than do the pundits. Commoners too cogitate upon the nature of suprahuman power, the possibilities and limitations of humankind, the means by which we and the cosmos came into existence, and our ultimate fate.
Analyzing LDS Growth in Guatemala: Report from a Barrio
March 29, 2018The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (usually called Mormon or LDS church) is having enormous success in most parts of the world. Growth is particularly impressive in Latin America. In 1971 there were only 217,500 LDS members on this continent, accounting for no more than seven percent of the church’s total membership.
A History of Dialogue, Part Two: Struggle toward Maturity, 1971-1982
March 29, 2018After Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought was founded by Mormons at Stanford University in 1966, it attracted Latter-day Saint scholars from all over the United States, and soon its success surpassed the expectations of…
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A Prophet, Seer, and Revelator | Bryan Waterman, ed., The Prophet Puzzle: Interpretive Essays on Joseph Smith
March 29, 2018What does it mean that Joseph Smith was “a seer, a translator, a prophet” (D&C 21:1)? This is the question addressed by the fifteen essays in this book, the eighth in Signature Books’s Essays on…
Making Miracles | Phyllis Barber, Parting the Veil: Stories from a Mormon Imagination
March 29, 2018When I was twelve, the youth in our ward did baptisms for the dead in the Los Angeles temple. To pique our interest, our leaders told tales of spirits appearing to the living and thanking…