Late in the summer of 1833 one Doctor Philastus Hurlbut, recently excommunicated from the Mormon church for “unchristianlike” conduct toward some of the sisters, learned of a manuscript written some twenty years before by […]
[…] W. H. Allen, 1967), p. 199. Ibid., p. 5. Ibid., p. 4. Emeritus professor of Doshisha University. News column of the Seito-no-Michi, the Japanese Church magazine, Vol. 2 (January 1958): 18-19. Seven out of […]
<i>Dialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 68–97</i><br> For faithful Mormons, the thought that someone had violated the sacred confines of the eighteen-year-old Salt Lake temple, which he desecrated by photographing, was “considered as impossible as profaning […]
In the decline of Christianity over the past 900 years, no incident has so symbolized the struggle between faith and rationality as has the trial of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). With his development of […]
[…] to mind: “Soon afterwards he went on through cities and villages, pro claiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him, as well as some women who […]
In his important study of Language, Belief, and Experience, the ethnographer Rodney Needham tells of a dream which disturbed his sleep one night. He found himself among a people he had once studied, […]
[…] close to docking. A new publication should give enthusiasts pause. In 2004, Columbia University Press released the latest title in its Religion and American Culture series: Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, […]
[…] quite a feat for an enterprise that was launched on a wing and a prayer. My purpose in this essay is to give a short background on my early interest in becoming an editor, […]
The LDS Church is currently gaining many new members in Asia, Africa, and especially Latin America. Nowadays more than 35 percent of the worldwide membership is concentrated in Latin America, compared to about 45 […]
[…] a great pioneer or something,” Tregan said. “My dad said with all these Mormon fundamentalists in the news and that one guy being put on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, the city didn’t want […]