[…] wealth. The fact that the American Mormon economic thinkers he cites “don’t really experience any such tensions” over the idea of wealth accumulation (p. 37) is an indictment of those Mormon thinkers themselves and […]
[…] consequence of his particular distinction between religion and magic, Quinn differs with the defensive Mormon writers only over the timing of Mormon ism’s renunciation of magic, and not with their insistence that their faith […]
[…] resulting from these revelations gave rise to another symposium and panel, held at Brigham Young University on 6 August 1987. This panel convened to explore two questions in relation to the Mark Hofmann forgeries: […]
[…] Ed Geary to our group, then a large board of editors and many associate and assistant editors over the next few years as we actually produced the journal. Founding and continuing DIALOGUE has been […]
[…] 750,000 members. The Idaho county where I had grown up and attended high school had fewer than 3,000 Latter-day Saints out of a total population of about 30,000. Our own town, Twin Falls, had […]
Southern Illinois in sweltering and wet summer. Thunder and the whippoorwill sing strange duets at night. From southwestern deserts to the closest
[…] death should arouse more hatred toward Mormonism, Talmage declared, he would not have died in vain (CHC 6: 26-8). However, even before Garfield was shot, the Reynolds decision had sparked the campaign against the […]
[…] of Calvinism,” and that by Joseph’s time “the family could scarcely connect with mainstream Protestantism” (pp. 5, 6). This is hard to accept when the revolt against Calvinism was almost universal in the United […]
[…] Milton Christensen called him to serve as his second counselor. The president commented in the mission journal, 6 February 1958, “The Lord truly blessed me in the selection of This Elder, who is very […]
Dialogue 21. 3 (Fall 1988): 73–85 I used to love this description because my Mormon heaven seemed far superior to this standard Christian heaven that Twain’s Satan describes. Sexual intercourse does have a place […]