Last Supper
March 28, 2018“Have you heard the really bad news?” my editor, Doc, asked almost off handedly as he wound the film in his camera.
Then came that pause.
DiaBLOGue
Defending Magic: Explaining the Necessity of Ordinances
March 28, 2018In this paper I want to deal with a large gap in Christian theology, in general, and in LDS theology, in particular. The gap is the lack of explanation of the moral necessity of religious…
Lions, Brothers, and the Idea of an Indian Nation: The Mexican Revolution in the Minds of Anthony W. Ivins and Rey L. Pratt, 1910-1917
March 28, 2018In 1915 Mormon apostle James E. Talmadge published Jesus the Christ. Speculating on what Pontius Pilate must have been thinking when Christ stood before him, Talmadge concluded it “was clear to the Roman governor that…
Without Question
March 28, 2018Did you ever start to think
what happens to saliva while you sleep?
Don’t.
Correlated Praise: The Development of the Spanish Hymnal
March 28, 2018Statisticians predict that by 2012 native Spanish speakers will surpass native English speakers as the LDS church’s largest language group.[1] Clearly, the church is about to reach a dramatic turning point in its international growth.…
Eve’s Psalm
March 28, 2018My fingers, like God’s fingers,
point to the dawn of salvation.
I clasp this pomegranate, its seeds like
worlds extending our isolated existence.
When The Mormon Church Invested in Southern Nevada Gold Mines
March 28, 2018During the worst economic depression in the history of the United States up to 1929, that of the 1890’s, the highest leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with several other church members, purchased a cluster of promising mines and claims in Nye County, Nevada. Desperate for funds after a decade-long judicial onslaught by the federal government, which included confiscation and misuse of church property, the church saw this gold mining enterprise as a good way to recoup church financial security.
Aspiration
March 28, 2018Wind, shorn from the sky by glass
and concrete, whistles down the face
of the casino tower, flings the naked
branches of a sidewalk tree, and pours
A History of Dialogue, Part Three: “Coming of Age” in Utah, 1982-1989
March 28, 2018By 1982 Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought had been publishing for sixteen years and had operated at both ends of the U.S. under three different editorships. It was born, flourished for several years, then…
Lucy’s Own Voice | Lavina Fielding Anderson, ed., Lucy’s Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith’s Family Memoir
March 27, 2018In the winter after the martyrdom of her sons, Joseph and Hyrum, Lucy Mack Smith dictated a history of her family to Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, a sympathetic schoolteacher in Nauvoo. Two copies were made…