[…] A 2004 Pew Internet and American Life project estimated that 64 percent of American internet users go online for spiritual or religious purposes.Religious organizations large and small are increasingly participating in cyberspace; and according […]
[…] has been a serious one for the Mitt Romney campaign. He’s made efforts to bridge divides in order to make his candidacy appealing to a particular segment of conservative Republican primary voters who, generally […]
[…] ex tending, Smith’s religious vision. “The chaos of materials prepared by [Smith] must now be placed in order in the building,” he wrote. “The laws revealed by him must now be administered in all […]
Not long ago I went out with the full-time elders and we taught a young mother who was quite interested in our message. In fact, she had been meeting with the missionaries for several […]
The gold plates occupy an interesting place in Mormon culture. Although they are an essential part of the Mormon foundational narrative, the plates have a peripheral place in Mormons’ ordinary discourse. Take, for […]
In his 2003 Dialogue article, Ronald V. Huggins discussed the possibility that Joseph Smith’s ostensible encounter with the angel Moroni was the invocation of a long-held folk tradition of treasure guardians in a milieu […]
Two poems that I read during my sophomore year of college ended up changing my life. The first of these, John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” changed it quickly by helping me decide […]
I’ve been asked to speak on the topic of women who have inspired me, how they’ve helped me, and how I honor them in my life. I want to start with a remarkable experience […]
Terryl Givens’s work has, with good reason, become quite popular in Mormon circles over the past few years. Since The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy (1997), he has […]
Dialogue 47.4 (Winter 2014): 167–180 Brooks talks about the period from 1970s Mormon feminism in Boston to the present and imagines what needs to be part of the future. She identifies five areas for […]