[…] to a broader, spiritualized reinterpretation of Zion while others would emphasize the apocalyptic aspects of the kingdom over its socialistic economic vision. In a real sense, the RLDS community faced the problem of “when […]
Of the Protestant denominations vying for converts in western New York during the early nineteenth century, Methodism is rightly regarded as having made the greatest religious impress on the young Joseph Smith. Oliver Cowdery […]
[…] bit strident and self-righteous in Dialogue called—I’m going to get this wrong—“Let Reason Ring from the Foothills.”[ 3] And anyone who has the slightest acquaintance with the geography of the Salt Lake Valley knows […]
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[…] I also found interesting Julie Hemming Savage’s “Hannah Grocer Hegsted and Post-Manifesto Plural Marriage” (Dialogue 26, no. 3 [Fall 1993]: 101–18). In a day when the world press is expounding on the polygamous ancestry […]
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I am happy to pay tribute to Gene England, a vivid and significant twentieth-century intellectual of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Gene influenced many Mormons with his rigorous ethics, his lived […]
[…] into our physical body, and that we rejoin this great oversoul once we are dead—I never could buy it. One becomes part of this oversoul when one is finally liberated from all cravings. It […]
[…] of a cache of money hidden in the Utah desert that C. H. is to retrieve “ for a wise purpose.” From there, the plot one-ups itself with each successive chapter as C. H. […]
[…] what I felt was an empty niche in LDS publishing—that is, a publication that is absolutely committed to upholding the doctrines and leadership of the Church but is also equally committed to exploring all […]