[…] of apostasy and the efficacy of punishing members who wish to be included among the fold. In order to evaluate the validity of the stereotype of apostasy, it may prove useful to examine the […]
[…] to the covenant and blessings of Abraham because of God’s restoration, through the Church, of the ancient order of salvation. As we were driven from place to place, finally from our city beautiful, Nauvoo, […]
[…] a counter voice to papal authority. Such a use of scripture required a more historical-critical hermeneutic in order to illustrate the misuse of pentateuchal literature through past interpretation by the Roman church. The reformer’s […]
There once was a time, albeit brief, when a “Negro problem” did not exist for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During those early months in New York and Ohio no mention […]
[…] side: the effect of the antipolygamy campaign on the nation—on all its churches and even its constitutional order. The Mormon Question portrays a period of water shed change in the constitutional world of American […]
In a 1933 address, Elder Glenn L. Pace asked the question, “Faced with ever louder cries for help from the world, how do we determine where to focus our efforts?” This essay asks a […]
[…] of power: exploitative, “the simplest and, humanly speaking, most destructive kind of power”; manipulative, which is “power over another person”; competitive, “power against another”; nutrient, “power for the other”; and integrative, “power with another […]
[…] new prophets and the establishment try to hide behind the names of the ancient, canonical prophets in order to claim authority” (72). He believes the Book of Mormon was created in precisely the same […]
In some ways, this volume is just the latest in a long line of books written on the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. Historians, journalists, and others have told this story and furnished analyses […]
[…] thinkers, scholars, historians, advocates, editors and leaders presenting their ideas on what has made Dialogue strong in the past 50 years and what will continue it’s legacy in the coming decades. In this first […]