[…] a willingness to treat other men as other selves. —Thomas Merton I’ll begin with two anecdotes, in order to situate my comments. A well-known scholar of nineteenth-century American religion visits a seminar in which […]
[…] itself suggests a reason for the conflicting doctrines, stating that God has purposely used misleading language in order “that it might work upon the hearts of the children of men” (D&C 19:7). In other […]
<i>Dialogue 31.3 (1998): 101–122</i><br> Stuy looks at “ the dedication of the Salt Lake temple constituted one of the most important events in the history of the world. Due to the sacred nature of […]
Sir Henry Maine, our first great modern legal historian of the English language and law, in describing the paradigmatic shift from early feudal European society to a world of secular, territorial nation-states and market […]
[…] The LDS community generally views contemporary American society as disordered. The values which Mormons hold dear bring order to their lives. Chastity brings order to a culture, a community, an individual’s own psyche, and […]
[…] them. Their tormentors portrayed them as a nation within a nation, radical communalists who threatened the economic order and polygamists out to destroy the American family. This year their circumstances could not be more […]
[…] leadership was not unaware of the emergence of the journal, but a more formal announcement seemed in order. The question was how to go about making such an announcement, and the approach that was […]
[…] appear on a list of Mormons who were rebaptized in a show of support for the United Order in Monroe, Utah. For Lewis, the Order was much harder to live than the Principle. One […]
The year was 1983. Sister Mercedes Pico de Coello was dying of tuberculosis, coughing up blood. A frail and thin 43-year-old mother of twelve, her life could probably have been saved for $200. […]
The history of empires and nation-states is often a chronicle of wars, as this sprinkling of names clearly evokes: Ghengis Khan, Attila the Hun, Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, William T. Sherman, Dwight D. […]