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Volume 30, No. 3

Fall 1997

Articles/Essays

Max Weber and Lowell Bennion: Towards an Understanding of Hierarchy and Authority

Laurie Newman DiPadova

Renegotiating Scylla and Charybdis: Reading and the Distance between New York and Utah

John Bennion

C. Thomas Asplund: Quiet Pilgrim

Marni Asplund-Campbell

One Nation Under Whose God? How Religion was Excluded from the U.S. Political System

Claude J. Burtenshaw

Reflections on LDS Disbelief in the Book of Mormon as History

Brigham D. Madsen

Dialogue 30.3 (Fall 1999):90–103
To average LDS church members in 1909, Roberts’s New Witnesses for God substantiated their beliefs and further embellished his stature for them as a historian and defender of the Book of Mormon. But only thirteen years later Roberts was to change his mind and that dramatically.

At Fifty-Nine

Paul A. Tenney

Building Wilkinson’s University

Gary James Bergera

Did the Author of 3 Nephi Know the Gospel of Matthew?

Ronald V. Huggins

Researching Mormonism: General Conference as Artifactual Gold Mine

Richard N. Armstrong

When the Brightness Seems Most Distant

Todd Robert Petersen

“It might not be a problem,” she said to her husband before rolling onto her stomach with a pillow clutched in her arms. She was tired from crying and wished sleep would overcome her. Though…

Like the Rose

Hugo N. Olaiz

For Baldomero and Adeena My real name is Carlos, but ever since I turned eight everyone calls me Charlie. That’s the name I received from Allen and Johnson, the first two Mormons who ever set…