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The Death and Resurrection of the RLDS Zion: A Case Study in “Failed Prophecy” 1930-70

March 21, 2018

On Resurrection Sunday, April 1930, Bishop J. A. Koehler of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints attended a priesthood prayer meeting at the Stone Church RLDS congregation in Independence, Missouri. After a week of solemn and joyful conference services remembering the past century of the denomination’s history, men from across the world sat seeking the Lord’s further direction before Easter services.

On Balancing Faith in Mormonism with Traditional Biblical Stories: The Noachian Flood Story

March 21, 2018

Describing the religion of the Latter-day Saints, John Taylor said that it “embraces every principle of truth and intelligence pertaining to us as moral, intellectual, mortal and immortal beings, pertaining to this world and the world that is to come. We are open to truth of every kind, no matter whence it comes, where it originates or who believes in it. . . . A man in search of the truth has no particular system to sustain, no particular dogma to defend or theory to uphold.”

The Encounter of the Young Joseph Smith with Presbyterianism

March 21, 2018

Of the Protestant denominations vying for converts in western New York during the early nineteenth century, Methodism is rightly regarded as having made the greatest religious impress on the young Joseph Smith. Oliver Cowdery claimed that Smith had been “awakened” during a sermon by the Methodist minister George Lane.

A Case for Same-Sex Marriage: Reply to Randolph Muhlestein

March 21, 2018

Dialogue 40.3 (Fall 2007): 50–60

These articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same-sex marriage were an option.

The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage

March 21, 2018

Dialogue 40.3 (Fall 2007): 11–41

These articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if same-sex marriage were an option.

Letters to the Editor

March 21, 2018

Richard Ward, Dialogue Reconsidered
Yukio Shimomura, A Note to Jiro Numano from a Nisei American
Jiro Numano, Jiro Numano Responds