[…] always agree with its arguments. In it, BYU German professor Alan Keele mines German literature and drama for what he calls the supernal: specifically, for narratives that echo LDS concepts of preexistence, eternal marriage […]
Driving from Hollister to Santa Cruz late morning, I stop at San Juan Bautista to grab a sandwich. All the signs point toward the Mission, so I keep driving. Brown-skinned Mexican kids swirl around […]
[…] be normal?” he scrawled in rough but legible script, “Why should I be Dick and not Tito?” 6. I’m remembering a comment of John Gardner, a now-retired BYU physics professor who said to me […]
[…] human speech and writing reflect humankind’s “lost and fallen state” and is therefore fallible (1 Ne. 10: 6). In such passages, language itself becomes an important feature of the encumbering web of confusion and […]
[…] 90-106, and 107-50. Each concludes with a doxology or praising verse (Pss. 41:13; 72:18-19; 89:52; 106:48; 150:1- 6). Many of the psalms within each book have been carefully placed with nearby psalms according to […]
[…] wish to really discover who one’s partner is on many levels. Much like the quip, “Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it sure makes a good down payment,” sexual interest alone does not create a […]
[…] inhabitants who formerly resided upon this continent” (Dan Vogel, ed., Early Mormon Documents, 5 vols. , 1:496). 3. Lorenzo Saunders’s 1884 interview. Saunders said that Joseph told him about the revelation, the plates, and […]
[…] grandeur of Eastern academe. This problem is compounded by claims that Widtsoe was “Harvard’s prize student ( 3),” achieving the “highest accomplishments any student Harvard in its 365-year history (xiii).” While Widtsoe’s summa degree […]
[…] can occur entirely outside the ghetto of wholly Mormon venues, that time has not yet come. Furthermore, for certain topics I don’t think that it will ever come. That being the case, I care […]
<i>Dialogue 38.4 (Winter 2006):83–104</i><br>Thus, regardless of how one chooses to resolve the issues surrounding its origins, one must conclude that the Book of Mormon’s theological arguments should be seen as designed to be read […]