[…] Saints have engaged in missionary work since the year of the religion’s founding. But sociological research on the experience of these missionaries is still young and stands as a field white and ready to harvest.
[…] of these old ones, so we fight for every moment of life, every minute of peace we can offer. They deserve it. They, in their over-optimism, created a world so indulgent and interconnected that […]
CLEO: Welcome, speakers and selected guests. Please make sure you are muted. We hope you’ve brought your own beverages to the symposium! Among many claimants for possible literary influence on the Book of Mormon […]
Dialogue 52.2 (Spring 2019):1–58Attributing the Book of Mormon’s origin to supernatural forces has worked well for Joseph Smith’s believers, then as well as now, but not so well for critics who seem certain natural […]
Max Hansen dipped his brush into the can and reached to the ceiling, spreading paint thickly and smoothly across the plyboard surface. He paused a moment, listening to a faint tapping sound. Rain? No. […]
[…] West Mountains, sloping off to the Pescadero foothills, running off to the pasture lands where her father’s cattle had once grazed; then into the thick-limbed poplars edging the village roads and house lots and […]
[…] America have a fundamentally Mormon component and that Kushner’s calls for liberal social change and revolutionary action can be profitably analyzed through lenses crafted by Joseph Smith’s revolutionary revisions of traditional Christian and Jewish […]
[…] I was no older than fourteen—I received a special gift from my grandparents. They knew I liked to read. In fact, they knew that I read a lot. I was a regular patron of […]
[…] the early converts to the LDS church, whose religious experiences took them through a refiner’s fire so significant and revolutionary that it helped provide their descendants with the disposition to embrace a new, radical faith.
[…] force we have unleashed upon other countries. I have wondered if there weren’t a better alternative than to launch an all-out assault on a country (Afghanistan) that had already been devastated by recent wars […]