[…] the violent mob actions to which he and his people had been subjected, Joseph Smith continued to call for personal pacifism: Wise men ought to have understanding enough to conquer men with kindness…. It […]
[…] would I be?” “A box seat back at the Empire?” Now it was my colleague’s turn to call my bluff. That was in Old New York, which doesn’t exist any longer, and perhaps never […]
<i>Dialogue 48.1 (Spring 2015):169–177</i><br>In this “ From the Pulpit,” Jared Hickman discussed the self-confessed weaknesses of multiple authors in the Book of Mormon, indicating that the text is not the literal word of God. […]
[…] modern) terms, but they each function differently than the other. Homer is closer to what we now call fiction, and the Bible is in another category altogether, one our culture is no longer familiar […]
[…] have a problem. You know, many people are complaining. In our town is a faction we could call the I-have-the-Lord people. Now with Miss Spurns these people are causing trouble. They are the people […]
[…] to an ideal of cosmic as well as human collaboration. His personal mode of leadership increasingly shifted from autocratic to collaborative—and that mode infused both his most radical theologizing and his hopes for Church […]
[…] was achieved. Gradually the color and inventiveness of the illustrations have increased so that the total effect now compares to some of those first experimental issues. I particularly like Eleanor Shull’s covers, and the […]
[…] degraded vagabond in existence” (Bennett 1842a, 225). And visitors to Nauvoo on this date heard the Prophet call Sarah a “ from her mother’s breast” (Sangamo Journal, 1 Aug. 1842). Bennett’s second letter, published […]
[…] a worthy opponent. As Paine had earlier used the plurality of worlds to argue against Christianity, Chalmers now used pluralism to support and defend the revival of religious neo-orthodoxy. Chalmers’s intention thus became twofold: […]
[…] simultaneously are culturally white. This haunting expectation is tragically demonstrated through the experience of an Argentine woman now living in the United States. She has complained to me that, although she has no Native […]