What You Don’t Know
March 23, 2018[…] he didn’t tell me him self. Rather, I heard it from my mother, on a long-distance phone call from California, in October 1999. “Your dad had chest pains this morning, so they took him […]
[…] he didn’t tell me him self. Rather, I heard it from my mother, on a long-distance phone call from California, in October 1999. “Your dad had chest pains this morning, so they took him […]
[…] world.” For enthusiastic subscribers, the Relief Society Magazine was anything but insignificant. The implications, however, of correlation’s call to eliminate spelled out the inevitable demise of the woman’s magazine. Correlation, expansion, the shift to […]
[…] she says. She’s not being metaphorical. Her boys are screaming good-natured screams, screams of joy, you might call them. But still. I am putting up the pies. I take slices from each leftover pie […]
[…] feels we should evacuate the stadium. Exit in an orderly fashion, please.” Called to Serve Richard’s mission call, an excerpt: You are assigned to labor in the Honduras San Pedro Sula Mission. You will […]
Recently, Dialogue asked Susanna Morrill, associate professor of religious studies at Lewis and Clark College, to moderate a discussion between Robert Orsi and Richard Lyman Bushman, then chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University.
[…] Lehi’s dream, begins with an account of the forefathers (men and women) passing through a wilderness only to find a special tree and its fruit; I will demonstrate the allusive presence of the tree […]
[…] a big turn, and it blindsided me. It’s one of the things I love about great stories. Now, part of me wants desperately to talk all about the unexpected twist—it needs to be talked […]
[…] ton V. Backman’s American Religions and the Rise of Mormonism* (Deseret Book, $3.75) . In passing we call your attention to the Papers of Fifteenth Annual Symposium on the Archaeology of the Scriptures * […]
[…] like Freakonomics than anything else. The book rarely cites scripture or doctrine and is focused on evidence from neuroscience, psychology, and economics to support its argument about the nature of belief in the modern […]
[…] amounts of the personal, but they all are addressing who this man was and what he means now. Let’s take them in publication order. Arriving in time for the Church’s two-hundred-year anniversary celebration of […]