Jonathan Z. Smith famously remarked that “a comparison is a disciplined exaggeration in the service of knowledge.”One of the insights that has animated the study of comparative religion in the past several decades is […]
[…] to try and convey aspects of Charles Taylor’s work that I find tremendously helpful in working through the challenges that all of us confront and that give rise to conferences like this one. Let […]
My parents, in a nice haphazard sort of a way exposed me early on to the basic classical literature and ideas that they thought I needed to know. The raciness of some of the […]
Abraham H. Cannon was Mormon aristocracy. The son of long-time First Presidency member George Q. Cannon, he accepted a call as an apostle at age thirty. During the latter portion of his life, the […]
[…] mostly good. More than a partnership, our tiny family. No parents, no children, but Lauren is coming over this afternoon, after her classes. She comes every week now. I know it’s her idea, not […]
Two things have been on my mind recently. They have provoked a lot of thought and research. Over the past months, I have spent hours on the internet perusing medical studies, Church websites, and […]
[…] Church and its membership for meddling in American politics and in American bedrooms. But the national uproar over the Church’s political involvement on gay rights issues became a local controversy in July 2009. Two […]
[…] pen name Obadiah Dogberry. Early church leaders first confronted Cole and then had to seek arbitration in order to stop him from this piracy. I knew prior to reading this book that the first […]
In The American Religion, critic Harold Bloom begins his analysis of Mormonism with this well-known prophesy about the future of Mormon literature: A major American poet, perhaps one called a Gentile by the Latter-day […]
[…] we don’t know what those garments looked like. Sarah created memorable meals for her guests (Genesis 18: 6), but we don’t know her recipes. The daughters of the Lamanites danced in delight (Mosiah 20:1), […]