[…] other forms of scripture, are epigrammatic and oracular.” Smith “never presented his ideas systematically in clear, logical order; they came in flashes and bursts,” while “his most powerful thoughts” take the form of “assertions […]
In July 2004, the LDS Church published True to the Faith, a handbook of doctrines and beliefs arranged alphabetically from A (“Aaronic Priesthood”) to Z (“Zion”): 190 pages of what Mormons are supposed to […]
Dialogue 39.4 (Winter 2006): 58–67 I spoke as a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints/Community of Christ. As a result, I had a decidedly different perspective on Joseph […]
Dialogue 39.4 (Winter 2006): 67–90 Members of the Community of Christ were shocked when our president, W. Grant McMurray, announced that he had resigned on November 29, 2004 , effective immediately.
[…] shots of the cast and skims their bios. Juliet had played a murder victim on Law and Order last season. Romeo had recently completed an engagement with a traveling company of Oklahoma! He examines […]
[…] am age nineteen and in Clark’s Barbershop with Lloyd for his weekly duck’s butt haircut. He’s reading the Salt Lake Tribune and 1 am turning magazine pages. A coupon says, “Play a guitar in […]
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) and its currently jailed leader, Warren Jeffs, recently established the 1700-acre Yearn for Zion Ranch in dry country northwest of San Antonio, amid alfalfa […]
[…] live with uncertainty, to be able to cope with the insecurities of an exceedingly complex world in order to control it would be a higher achievement religiously, I think.”[2] In other words, we should […]
[…] 1945, Fawn McKay Brodie’s biography of Joseph Smith, No Man Knows My History, was published by Knopf. The book received critical acclaim, establishing Brodie’s career as a biographer. Nevertheless, the biggest natural market for […]
Describing the religion of the Latter-day Saints, John Taylor said that it “embraces every principle of truth and intelligence pertaining to us as moral, intellectual, mortal and immortal beings, pertaining to this world and […]