[…] 1950s, President David O. McKay took forthright steps to move the largely domestic church into the international world. Within months after assuming his presidency, he embarked on a series of world tours, much as […]
<i>Dialogue 39.4 (Winter 2006): 67–90</i><br>Members of the Community of Christ were shocked when our president, W. Grant McMurray, announced that he had resigned on November 29, 2004 , effective immediately.
[…] employed to further a host of goals. Within communities, history represents a way of appropriating the past in order to serve the needs of the present. Maurice Halbwachs’s work emphasizes the role history plays […]
[…] Royalton Vermont Town records, 1788–1880, digital image, FamilySearch.org, citing FamilySearch microfilm 982526, items 3–5, 318; “Vermont State News,” The Vermont Watchman and State Journal (Montpelier), May 14, 1884, , https://www.newspapers.com/image/71218953/. Joseph Smith is a […]
<i>Dialogue 53.2 (Summer 2020): 57–106</i><br> Although Smith desired to publish the new translation, circumstances were such that publication at that time was not possible.
In the introduction to his epic short story, “A River Runs Through It,” Norman Maclean wrote that his primary aim was to let his “children know what kind of people their parents are […]
[…] Saints. Mormons are exhorted to read the scriptures and official publications such as the Ensign and Church News. Books written by the church’s general authorities are virtually guaranteed to sell in large quantities. Lessons […]
<i>Dialogue 40.1 (Spring 2007): 83–136</i><br>Watson explains how the secret marriage of Louis J. Barlow to a 15-year-old girl caused a major rift among fundamentalists. Today’s fundamentalist members are still experiencing the effects of that marriage.
[…] who has spent a professional lifetime reading, teaching, and writing about literary texts. Much of my interest in and approach to the Book of Mormon lies with the text—though not just as a field […]
Dialogue departs from its usual review format in the following exchange of points of view on W. Cleon Skousen’s latest book, The Naked Capitalist