The writers of these books, with painstaking research, have produced studies that may help the present generation understand American history and culture just as Perry Miller and Henry Nash Smith aided understanding a […]
[…] only or primary source. We find glimpses of events and people: early proselyting, Zion’s Camp, Nauvoo’s Holy Order, female faith healing, meeting routines, and the melancholy scene when the eastern missionaries learn of Joseph […]
[…] as your letters have suggested, that since she is still comparatively young and her major misfortunes occurred over eight years ago, she might be able to take a place in society again. I can […]
Dialogue 23.4 (Winter 1990): 83–96 This essay explores some of the strengths of deliberately choosing to relate to our world with gender-inclusive language in three areas
[…] in common with the rest of mankind, par taking of the infantile stage of man’s existence, in order that man might be able to receive him” (Adversus Haereses, Bk. 4, Ch. 38, 2). We therefore […]
[…] quasi Mormons, and apostates who are the center of the story. Irvine has kept his newsclippings in order, and he does provide “a wealth of local color,” as one of the book’s blurbs proclaims. […]
Dialogue 24.1 (Spring 1991): 86–98 In preparation for the Independence Temple that was dedicated in 1994, an RLDS member shares ideas about temples in general.
In Another Part of the Twenties (1977), Paul A. Carter upended all of the stereo types advanced by historians about the 1920s. The jazz age was really more of a waltz than most people […]
[…] of transcendence, and the Father incarnate as Son—those seem to me to be paradoxes of the first order. But speculations about a Divine Mother do not seem paradoxical in the same way. Where is […]
[…] of albums and journals. I laid letters out over every dry surface I could find. What little order there was in the documentation of my life-up-to-then had been destroyed. I am waiting for time […]