Years ago, I visit-taught a single mother of three young boys whose grasp of Mormon doctrine seemed patchy, at best. Our so-called “les sons”—punctuated by frequent smoking breaks—were seldom more than lively recitations regarding her…
Paul Gutjahr, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Indiana University, has written an elegant and engaging study of “The Good Book” in America. Readers of An American Bible: A History of the Good…
Scott R. Christensen has made an auspicious entry into the realm of Mormon history with his book Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822-1887. Already the volume has won the 1999 Evans Handcart Prize and the…
In the century since twenty-five year-old David Oman McKay made his last formal entry in his missionary diary in Glasgow, Scotland, Mor monism has metamorphosed from a small religious group centered in Utah’s Wasatch Front…
Winner of the 1999 “Best Biography Award” from the Mormon History Association, Fawn McKay Brodie measures up to the honor. A biographer commonly finds varied reasons for selecting his or her subject. Newell Bringhurst candidly…
New York Times reviewer Christopher Lasch, reviewing Erik Erikson’s psychobiography of Mahatma Gandhi in 1969, wrote: “Erikson understands that to reduce illustrious men to their symptoms explains everything except the one thing that most needs…
“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.” …
There’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…
Dialogue 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.
Theology 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.