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Volume 12, No. 4

Winter 1979

Articles/Essays

How Firm a Foundation! What Makes It So

Hugh Nibley

The Supreme Court, Polygamy and the Enforcement of Morals in Nineteenth Century America

James L. Clayton

1979: James Clayton, “The Supreme Court, Polygamy and the Enforcement of Morals in Nineteenth Century America“ Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 12 No. 4 (1979): 46–61. Clayton discusses the history behind The Supreme Court Case Reynolds v. United States (1876), and shares his opinion about what was going on between members...

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The Holding Forth of Jeddy Grant

Gene A. Sessions

On Mormonism, Moral Epidemics, Homeopathy and Death from Natural Causes

Lester E. Bush Jr.

The New Biology and Mormon Theology

William S. Bradshaw, James Farmer and F. Brent Johnson

Quackery and Mormons: A Latter-day Dilemma

L. Kay Gillespie

An Official Position

William Lee Stokes

1979: William E. Stokes, “An Official Position,” Dialogue 12.4 (Winter 1979): 90–92. In postscript let me say that I have been accused of forging this letter and of taking unfair advantage of President Smith. Let the readers judge. I am personally grateful that the Church has not been caught in the position of...

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