Thoughts on Mormonism, Evolution, and Brigham Young University
March 27, 2018Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 1–18
Well, I was raised in a rather unscientific environment , a little farming community.
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Hugh Nibley | Boyd Jay Petersen, Hugh Nibley: “A Consecrated Life”
March 27, 2018This authorized biography of one of Mormonism’s greatest minds and most prolific scholars is a wonderfully accessible entry point to the life and work of Hugh Nibley. Boyd Jay Petersen, married to Nibley’s youngest daughter,…
A Landmark in Mormon Thought | Blake T. Ostler, Exploring Mormon Thought, Volume 1: The Attitudes of God
March 27, 2018It is difficult to make comparisons between previous works in LDS philosophy and theology and Blake Ostler’s Exploring Mormon Thought: The Attributes of God. This is the first volume in a projected trilogy that will include…
Mormon Polygamy and the American Constitution | Sarah Barringer, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth Century America
March 27, 2018The Mormon Question is a good book: smart, amusing and yet sensitive to pathos, full of new insights about an old subject—the clash of Mormon polygamy and American law. Sarah Barringer Gordon has taken the…
Mormonism, Death, Salvation, and Exaltation | Douglas J. Davies, The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace and Glory
March 27, 2018Douglas Davies “gets” Mormonism, as demonstrated by his latest book. This book is not his first. Mormon Spirituality: Latter-day Saints in Wales and Zion was published in 1987 and is also a must for scholars…
Remuneration
March 27, 2018The price is higher than he expects
he smiles, wondering if it
has something to do with the new
black fishnets
The Lone and Dreary World
March 27, 2018But Adam and Eve wept for having come out of the garden, their first abode. . . And Adam said to Eve, “Look at thine eyes, and at mine, which afore beheld angels in heaven.…
Water Will
March 27, 2018In that first summer before a town was
(Only tents and wagonbeds), they tossed
Pails of water over the sun-scorched canvas.
“Without a Cause” and “Ships of Tarshish”: A Possible Contemporary Source for Two Unexplained Readings from Joseph Smith
March 27, 2018On Tuesday, the second of July, a fatigued but cheerful Sydney Rigdon took up his pen and addressed himself to a blank sheet of paper laying before him on a wooden writing table. At the…
Trouble in Eternity
March 27, 2018The trouble is in eternity, the Angels say,
Where my Mormon husband twenty years
Divorced believes in his sleep that we
Are married still. Always he is sleeping