Forever Family
March 28, 2018Five of his and four of hers were
step-this-and-that to each other.
The Church said, “Families Are
‘Forever'”—in their case it was more
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The LDS Sound World and Global Mormonism
March 28, 2018The expansion of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints may be described from a broadly phenomenological perspective in terms of sound and silence. My observations here deal with the outer, open dimension of…
Dig
March 28, 2018I began to dream I
was soil and you
were a plant that grew
in me, root hard
The Dynamics of LDS Growth in Guatemala, 1948-1998
March 28, 2018The U.S.-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is rapidly becoming a worldwide church, particularly since the 1950s. One major reason for this is the church’s ambitious evangelization program: In 2000 it had 60,000…
The Book of Mormon and Religious Epistemology
March 28, 2018In his important study of Language, Belief, and Experience, the ethnographer Rodney Needham tells of a dream which disturbed his sleep one night. He found himself among a people he had once studied, the Penan of Borneo, struggling to converse with them in their native tongue. He was distressed to realize he could not translate one particular phrase: “I believe in God.”
Legacy
March 28, 2018Her afghans and roses give her day a pattern
that will untighten her mouth pursed by a memory—
how her mother would fatten the favored son with milk,
claiming only boys needed calcium, not girls.
Gethsemane and Calvary in LDS Soteriology
March 28, 2018In this paper I explore one of the key ways in which the idea of salvation as formulated within LDS thought differs from expressions of salvation in other religious groups. I will also raise the…
Place, Time, and Family in Mormonism
March 28, 2018Christianity claims to be a universal religion, but in its origins and development it is also a Mediterranean religion, a religion which began among the Jews of Israel at the joining point of the great…
Mormon Studies in a European Setting
March 28, 2018I am particularly grateful for the invitation to edit this special edition of Dialogue, largely because it allows me to address readers in a relatively informal and conversational way on certain academic issues which often…
Remembering the Chevrolet
March 28, 2018 Gene’s criticism is a stone upon my mouth. He accused:
“You resurrect words I like, like bodies brought too often
from the tomb to be surprising, interesting, new.” Like Clint, who
loved saying “portico,” and Gene himself: speaking all that religion