<i>Dialogue 19.4 (Winter1986): 18–28</i><br> Taylor identifies the history behind the Smith Family and treasure seeking. During the 19th century treasure seeking is associated with both greed, but also obtaining spirtual knowledge like in Joseph […]
[…] evening and suggesting some directions for future research. Before trying to draw a picture of the Mormon world that emerges from narratives in the folklore archives, I must make a few statements about the […]
[…] what particular political or military objective a government might have, are absolved of responsibility for killing. During World War II, we had the tragic situation of Mormon soldiers from Germany and Mormon soldiers from […]
[…] and 23 years old, who proselytized for 1.5 or 2 years in 168 countries all over the world. How ever, the LDS church is more typically a Western Hemisphere church. Al though it claimed […]
[…] civilians.3 Hence, using such weapons would be absolutely forbidden by just war theory. At the end of World War II, President J. Reuben Clark Jr. gave eloquent, if angry, voice to the view that […]
[…] bunny hole of Alice’s Wonderland, we should be investing our time in organizations geared to the real world and to the solution of our moral problems. This conclusion requires that I withhold my substantive […]
<i>Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 83–129</i><br> The priesthood revelation of 1978 eased some of the tension when the apostles affirmed that Blacks could now be “adopted into the House of Israel” as full participants in […]
America’s worth to the world will be measured not by the solutions she seeks to impose on others, but by the degree to which she achieves her own ideals at home. That is a […]
[…] can do after such fear in an effort to keep himself unspotted from the things of the world is to read only the antiseptic Era and the bowdlerized Reader’s Digest Condensed Books. This puritanism […]
[…] Bywater, Benjamin Winchester and Francis De St. Jeor, were directly influenced by rationalistic writings. Nonetheless, a secular world view had challenged Christian assumptions and penetrated the thinking of the average man by the early […]