<i>Dialogue 31.4 (Winter 1999):190–199</i><br> It is noteworthy because, instead of laying out the original historical meaning of Isaiah, it reapplies the text to the time of Joseph Smith and to the course of Jewish […]
[…] This could work! *** The village consisted of slightly more than three-hundred people from all over the world. About a third were from China and another third from India. The rest were a mix […]
[…] during the Civil Rights Movement when people both inside and outside the Church were harshly critcizing the priesthood ban. When the world was changing, it looked like the Church was still adherring to the past.
[…] administered by wise leaders. The church’s increasing public relations efforts also helped reshape the Mormon image. Post- World War II codifications of journalistic objectivity, which mandated presenting both sides of an issue, may also […]
[…] earliest days, the church was preoccupied with its mission to seek out the descendants of Abraham through Jacob or Israel; these Israelites, in turn, would prepare the world for the millennial reign of the Messiah.
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, […]
[…] people to Chicago in 1893, that city would always be something more than “hog butcher to the world.” The dazzling Midway Plaisance, one of the fair’s high lights, soon disappeared. But an amazing stretch […]
[…] country (Afghanistan) that had already been devastated by recent wars (and which had suffered a million casualties in the decade of the nineties), to wage a preemptive war against another nation (Iraq) on the […]
<i>Dialogue 29.4 (Winter 1998):59–83</i><br> THE BOOK OF MORMON HAS OCCASIONALLY been portrayed as a deficient first novel. Its characters appear flat and stereotypical; the plots and characters seem to lack moral subtlety; and so […]
<i>Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2012): 70–83</i><br>I will be talking today about how women fit into the functional structure of LDS church governance; but, unlike many of the others speaking today, I do not have advanced […]