[…] about which we can do something. Mormons must do something about such past and continuing damages precisely in order to achieve our worldwide mission. We cannot succeed fully in taking the healing and unifying gospel […]
<i> Dialogue, 28.1 (Spring 1995): 143 – 161</i> <br> The matter which I propose to examine is whether the “present understanding of Egyptian religious practice” supports Joseph Smith’s explanations of the facsimiles found in […]
The ancient Chinese curse has plainly caught up with the LDS church over the past decade—never have the Saints lived in more interesting times. The recent whirlwind of world political changes has opened up […]
[…] century in a conservative country and as a member of a then austere, rigid, and legalistic Jesuit order. But just as a vow of silence unleashed a torrent of beauty and spiritual insight in […]
[…] infinite, the strategies, tac tics, and doctrinal emphases of the church will also have to vary in order to achieve the right kind and degree of tension. This requires a great deal of inspiration […]
[…] shaped by these things much as I’ve been shaped by the communal character of Mormonism. But in order for me to grow, in order for me not to be static, I must question. That […]
<i>Dialogue 29.4 (Winter 1998):59–83</i><br> THE BOOK OF MORMON HAS OCCASIONALLY been portrayed as a deficient first novel. Its characters appear flat and stereotypical; the plots and characters seem to lack moral subtlety; and so […]
[…] with the Temple, whose activities are set down in the Mishnah. Every year the changing of money—in order to collect the tax of a half shekel for every adult male—went on publicly throughout Israel. The […]
[…] that he does not wish to accept the prophetic assignment given to him by the angel. In order to reject his prophetic calling, Prior must do something relatively familiar to both Mormons and Jews […]
[…] October 1861 , Richard C. Evans rose to fame and power experienced by few other members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints during the late nineteenth and early twentieth […]