<i>Dialogue 27.1(Spring 1994): 1–72</i><br>Smith discusses the importance of plural marriage in Nauvoo to church history. He shows that after Joseph Smith passed away, Nauvoo polygamy numbers rose.
<i>Dialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 233–247</i><br> Snow puts Joseph Smith squarely within Joseph Campbell’s famous work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which is also known as the heroes journey.
[…] . . apartment. Everything was shared; many things were sacrificed. Firm friendships were established which still exist today, beyond continents and oceans. We sat in the Church meetings and in the classrooms huddled in […]
[…] twelve, her life could probably have been saved for $200. As a missionary, I had baptized her in 1980. As a BYU student, I had just spent $850 for this return visit to Ecuador. […]
[…] Andrew Jenson, Assistant Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938), 569; see also Andrew Jenson, Conference Report, April 1923, 78-81. Mark L Grover, “The […]
[…] Smith, God appeared, ordered him to restore his “true” church, and called him as a prophet. The news of Smith’s mystical experience generated animosity against him and he soon became a target of violence. […]
[…] one hand, and wanting to be accepted as a Christian religion on the other. But the Church today, especially in Europe, is surrounded more and more by secular philosophies. Converts come from different paradigms […]
[…] no matter how he is portrayed, his influence is rarely contested. “Few reporters ever go from writing news to being news,” Susan Sheehan wrote in the New York Times Magazine of August 13,1972, “and […]
[…] same biblical record. In the United States alone, where the splintering has been most pronounced, there are today at least 1,200 distinct religious organizations, the majority of which claim to base themselves on the […]
In the first century A.D., Pontius Pilate, confounded by Jesus Christ’s forceful witness to his mission to “bear witness unto the truth,” asked, “What is truth?” (John 18:38) This was neither the first […]