Who is the “man” Jacob wrestles at the ford of the Jabbok? Critical exegesis has traditionally identified him as an angel, with reliance upon ample evidence in the text: he appears out of nowhere […]
[…] the fifty “intellectuals” responded with their selections. Leading the list of those most frequently nominated were, in order: B. H. Roberts, Orson Pratt, Joseph Smith, Sterling McMurrin, and James E. Talmage. Since this listing […]
I step outside my New York City apartment, and my eyes become observant, sharp, peeled to anything that moves. I am watching for signs of the Second Coming.
[…] (Fall 1993): 119–140 In fall 1993, TJ O’Brian wrote, “You are Not Alone: A Please for Understanding the Homosexual Condition.” O’Brian was a gay man and this esay addresses how church members should treat […]
[…] in the Granite Stake [Salt Lake City] and once again became identified with the church in regular order. Victor and Adam came and worked in the temple that winter.” Aside from her silence about holding […]
In Saint George, Lena McCain had cancer. She set her house in order. In Las Vegas, the doctors went after the cancer with a knife, got it, watched her closely.
[…] we get on top of something else. History to be true has to get up high in order to show things as they fit together. But here I find another metaphor in one of […]
Dialogue 26.4 (Winter 1993): 1–22 The analysis that follos is an admittedly speculative personal reflection on elements that need to be kept in mind in understanding the psychological dynamics of Joseph Smith’s creativity.
Dialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 83–153 Believing that a more efficient approach could be used to the church’s advantage, he proposed that the Relief Society organize a social service department where these new techniques could […]
[…] and her first words upon alighting from the train, “My God, what a dump,” soon were all over town. The story describes her efforts to expose her farm-bred students to the great artists in […]