Clay L. Chandler

CLAY L. CHANDLER is an architect/developer living in Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania, with his wife, the Rev. Christie Chandler, their children, and a border collie.

Articles

The Truth, the Partial Truth, Something Like the Truth, So Help Me God

In October of 1993 Dallin H. Oaks, an apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and Steve Benson, editorial cartoonist for the Arizona Republic and eldest grandson of former LDS president Ezra Taft Benson, had an argument in a public place. Their dispute centered on the role played by Apostle Boyd K. Packer in the September excommunication of Paul James Toscano. According to both men, this had been a subject of discussion between them during two “confidential” meetings.

Scrying for the Lord: Magic, Mysticism, and the Origins of the Book of Mormon

Dialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128
JOSEPH SMITH GREW UP in a time and place where folk magic was an accepted part of the landscape. Before he was a prophet, he was a diviner, or more specifically, a scryer who used his peepstone to discover the location of buried treasure.