[…] Smith, president of the church’s Scandinavian mission, with emigration business. Brigham Young called and quickly rescinded a call appointing Taylor successor to Smith. Taylor instead returned stateside to oversee the vital New York side […]
[…] slow beginning there was in Bremen, as in all of Germany, a great deal of missionary success from the 1920’s to the Second World War and again in two periods after the Second World […]
Ever since the dark hours of September 11, I have been disquieted about what is now called “The War on Terrorism.” While I share America’s moral outrage over the barbaric attacks on our nation […]
[…] sort of way. No, sir. I’d seen him look at me that way plenty before the accident. Call me crazy, but I knew then my old Bobbie was behind those puzzled, lovesick eyes. He […]
[…] unsteadily around Barb’s awful dachshund Buddy, who whimpers and paces at the foot of the bed. “I’ll call 911,” Carma says. Barb’s eyes open wide. For an instant she looks at them in terror, […]
[…] young men who are worthy and who are physically able and mentally capable to respond to the call to serve. Many young women also serve, but they are not under the same mandate to […]
[…] whispered. I took the phone and leaned against the countertop. “Hello,” I said. “Hello.” “What, Derrick? No call?” Reed asked. “I didn’t know you were home.” I lied. In November, Reed sent a practically […]
[…] how Mormon belief in garden atonement developed out of Anglophone Protestantism from the 1820s and ’30s to now. Categories My first disagreement is with Christiansen’s binary framework, which either involves “the cross,” meaning “cross-centric […]
[…] Indigenous material, does not have so many cultural footings. Perhaps just a couple. For simplicity’s sake, I’ll call these less-than-firm foundations the standard of the Josephites and the land of the Brighamites. If you’re […]
<i>Dialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 35–70</i><br> When we assess Joseph Smith’s early trials as if the word “pretended” indicated deliberate deception on Joseph’s part, we miss the larger picture.