Another Angel
April 20, 2018[…] “Were you married to your first wife in the temple,” Holly asked, “for eternity or whatever they call it?” “Of course,” Robinson said. “Who’s been feeding you all this stuff? Charles?” “I’ve asked some […]
[…] “Were you married to your first wife in the temple,” Holly asked, “for eternity or whatever they call it?” “Of course,” Robinson said. “Who’s been feeding you all this stuff? Charles?” “I’ve asked some […]
[…] that the Mormons were the inheritors of the authentic Christianity. They also called themselves Latter-day Saints. “You call yourselves saints!” Gerard said incredulously. He stood back to scrutinize the missionary from a better angle […]
[…] the surrounding society and flexing the muscles of militancy, then it will begin to face what I call the predicament of disrepute, in which the host society responds with repression and threats to the […]
[…] personal direction. With disaffection from the continuum’s poles an alternative third position emerges, a group I will call the Charismatics. Charismatics take a less mediated approach to religious experience by elevating the place of […]
Editing William Clayton, James B. Allen A Response: The Politics of Mormon History, George D. Smith A Reply, James B. Allen A Rejoinder, George D. Smith
We are now celebrating forty years of continuous publication of this journal, quite a feat for an enterprise that was launched on a wing and a prayer. My purpose in this essay is to […]
[…] his job’s a lot duller than that. About the only drama he gets is the irate phone call. ‘The light bulb’s out! The toilet’s overflowing! Send somebody quick!’ But I guess it’s not a […]
[…] School class wanted to fight back? Yes, fight back! They would all write a letter! They would call the . . . the . . . “Brother Runyon, can you figure out who to […]
[…] researching poems written about the Book of Mormon. I had read Eliza R. Snow’s “The Lamanite” (adapted from a poem she wrote before becoming a Latter-day Saint titled “The Red Man of the West”), […]
<i>Dialogue 4.3 (Fall 1971): 42–45</i><br>It is tempting, of course, to redress the Book‘s limited literary impress by recourse to history, sociology, psychology, and demonology. It is tempting to say that a hundred and forty […]