[…] needed to be long to convey something of a lurid past that calls for “confessions.” “More perfect order within” suggests both the problem and the promise that I see in Mormon literature. I have […]
[…] to further a host of goals. Within communities, history represents a way of appropriating the past in order to serve the needs of the present. Maurice Halbwachs’s work emphasizes the role history plays as […]
[…] on this people!” (Alma 19:29). The queen then wakes the king, who calls the gathered people to order. Ammon and Abish’s fellow servants wake up, “And behold, many did declare unto the people that […]
<i>Dialogue 51.1 (Spring 2018): 167–180</i><br>In the prequel to this article, I discussed in general contours the dual nature of authority—individual and institutional—and how the modern LDS concept of priesthood differs significantly from the ancient […]
<i>Dialogue 18.1 (Spring 1985): 9–105</i><br> Quinn shares that even with the Manifesto that officially ended plural marriage, plural marriages were still happening in the church between the First and Second Manifestos. Despite church leaders […]
<i>Dialogue 26.1 (Spring 1993): 23–82</i><br> The clash between obedience to ecclesiastical authority and the integrity of individual conscience is certainly not one upon which Mormonism has a monopoly. But the past two decades have […]
[…] simply a matter of evolution: times change, and the focus and emphases of the Saints change in order to adapt. Although this is something of a judgment call, it seems to this writer that […]
<i>Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 19–38</i><br>In the years since this event, I’ve found that there are a number of members who believe that evolution is a doctrine of the devil.
Last summer, while I was reading the Salt Lake Tribune, I stumbled across the obituary of a beautiful woman who looked uncannily like my older sister, Ann. That’s why I read her obituary. Only […]
[…] Ghost.” The importance Taylor placed on the necessity of having the gift of the Holy Ghost in order to receive revelation is further evident from the distinction he made between the gift of the […]