[…] these stories. For example, in “Dark Watch,” a Mormon couple has to explicitly renounce their beliefs in order to keep assisting Mormons traveling to where (rumor has it) the Church may still exist in […]
[…] other. But instead of wondering aloud if they are still virgins, they just laugh and decide to order in baked Alaska before trying again. And again. And again. *** Possibility two, suggested ironically by […]
Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 25–44 Much has been discussed and written regarding whether or not the rate of LGBT youth suicides in the Mormon community has risen in the wake of the November 2015 […]
Very bold, I saw a star fall from heaven, Kindle a fire in the valley of decision. There could be nothing upon earth So exquisite
[…] life events doom them to being remembered on little more than census rolls and tax lists. In the annals of history, most will never be mentioned in so much as a footnote. Even that […]
[…] and they did understand in their hearts the words which he prayed.”[7] This is the highest possible order of existence. Although they profess monotheism, our Christian creeds actually teach two kinds of God. They […]
[…] Pratt handles his escape similarly well. He has the rhetorical skill to interrupt his own story in order to get his “friends all safely out”; and these interpolated vignettes and the account of his […]
[…] of American religions endures. Its very multiplicity is the condition of its harmony. Things unique—doctrine, discipline, worship, order, polity, piety, etc.—abide the de facto forfeiture of universality by a device that is simple and […]
Dialogue 1.2 (Summer 1966): 72–79 In this important article in one of the earliest Dialogue issues, Keller says “I went because I was frankly worried: worried that my wife and children should find me […]
[…] third of the book one shuttles back and forth in the period since the Civil War in order to cover a variety of topics ranging from missions and religious cults to movements toward Christian […]