[…] one step in that direction, this article explores Book of Mormon usage in the pre-Utah period (1830—46), and seeks answers to the following questions: Which passages from the Book of Mormon were cited and […]
[…] it may not be surprising that our president at this writing is so openly enamored of apocalyptic politics. But I suspect that previous presidents and Soviet party chairmen dreamed much the same dreams, though […]
Thoreau wrote in the beginning of Walden, “I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.” […]
[…] children in Provo. Algie, the elder, was the “idea woman,” the director. Although Thelma was interested in politics, she let Algie take the lead. She was more interested in art and literature and often […]
[…] a stroke. I hurriedly got him a cup of water; the crisis passed; and I never mentioned politics and Democrats again. Wirthlin was, one might acknowledge, a devoted right-wing Republican, a predilection which nearly […]
[…] death became an abstraction. Now, over three decades later, after witnessing a fair amount of human suffering and death, both through personal experiences and my professional role, the process of dying is no longer […]
[…] October of 1993 Dallin H. Oaks, an apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and Steve Benson, editorial cartoonist for the Arizona Republic and eldest grandson of former LDS president Ezra […]
Dialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128 JOSEPH SMITH GREW UP in a time and place where folk magic was an accepted part of the landscape. Before he was a prophet, he was a diviner, or more […]
[…] acceptance of this American-based church by other cultures as a legitimate part of their societies. Both conversion and enculturation require that people get to know something new and accept it as part of their […]
[…] popular in Mormon circles over the past few years. Since The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy (1997), he has become the most prolific and perhaps most important scholar […]