[…] in the Gospels be fore three major questions of method have been faced. For convenience’ sake, I call these three problems “miracles and the modern mind,” “mir acles and the ancient mind,” and “the […]
[…] the “region of country” Joseph described? How many converts have to be made for a fourteen-year-old to call it “multitudes”? When Walters describes his 1824 revival, he includes towns like Williamson, Ontario, Manchester, Sulphur […]
[…] October 1970 to a standing-room-only audience of 500 in the Lafayette Ballroom at the old Hotel Utah— now known, ironically, as the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. Brodie’s entire speech was published shortly thereafter as […]
[…] a Catholic, I realized through my own experience that this ancient spiritual gift is still bestowed. And now, as a Mormon, I can easily identify with pioneer accounts of its appearance among Saints who […]
[…] apparently never a polygamist. Rather, it was his doctrinal unorthodoxy and creative theological speculations that distanced him from the official LDS Church and made him an appealing figure to others whose ideas included the […]
[…] his importance and primacy in the Book of Mormon. Still, the Allreds do not stray too far from popular portrayals of the key characters, particularly the paintings of Arnold Frieberg. Nephi is clean-shaven. The […]
[…] Fawn McKay Brodie’s biography of Joseph Smith, No Man Knows My History, was published by Knopf. The book received critical acclaim, establishing Brodie’s career as a biographer. Nevertheless, the biggest natural market for a […]
[…] was awaiting the arrival of our teacher, Tom Rogers popped his head in the doorway and talked to us for ten or fifteen minutes or so. (One of my fellow students must have been […]
[…] 121–147</i><br>In this essay, I shall begin by describing what we can learn about our Mother in Heaven from the scriptures. I then will draw from those descriptions some (very modest) suggestions for how we […]
[…] their sin, and I can only make them angry if I do not agree, so I will call him Josephine when others are watching and in my heart of hearts I’ll always know that […]