[…] on earth right away. Like the early Mormon Saints, many believed the Second Coming and the millennial order were imminent. Thus James and John were not thinking of the afterlife when they requested to […]
<i>Dialogue 26.2 (Summer 1993): 139–153</i><br> A study done to see how many polygamous wives there were at the peak of polygamy in the church.
<i>Dialogue 26.3 (Summer 1995):163–180</i><br>FOR TRADITION-MINDED MEMBERS of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints the Book of Mormon’s historicity is a given: Book of Mormon events actually occurred and its ancient participants existed […]
<i>Dialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 231–245</i><br>In the brief essay which follows, I do not reassert the arguments supporting women’s right to priesthood, but focus on certain problems raised by the assumption that women have priesthood authority.
[…] 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 […]