[…] at Mountain Meadows (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) by Glen M. Leonard, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Ronald W. Walker, a history of Mormonism’s darkest hour, is itself a history-making event. A scholarly […]
[…] they believe that, while God governed the creation in some sense, it proceeded largely by natural laws and processes that can be uncovered by diligent research. An open-ended philosophy of this sort is entirely […]
The First Vision, that seminal event which has inspired and intrigued all of us for nearly two centuries, came into sharp focus again in 2012 when another volume of the prestigious Joseph Smith Papers […]
[…] emerging from its cocoon in the American West and renegotiating its relationship with the rest of the world. The writers of the midcentury Mormon diaspora were an important (if often unacknowledged) part of that […]
It is early evening in ancient Jerusalem, and a beautiful young Jewish woman, recently wed, carries a small bundle of clean clothing and a linen towel. Her sandals pad against the limestone pathway that […]
[…] calls out tendencies to insularism and violence in Mormon culture and points toward hope. In a post-pandemic world where gun-toting survivors have mostly wiped out their neighbors, a nameless narrator survives by following a […]
[…] at both a literal and spiritual level; it is T. S. Eliot’s “This is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper” in zoo-centered story form. The rest of […]
[…] seemed appropriate to include some of my feelings along with our renewal. Although our financial situation doesn’t allow us to become Dialogue Associates, we are sending a gift sub scription and enclosing a token donation.
[…] his experiences, although boundary-pushing, are so analog. Everything about Hicks’s experience depends on functions of his physical world encountering the metaphysical or spiritual world, but always through inherently grounded and analog functions. And it […]
[…] early phases of what is going to become known as the Book of Mormon Wars. Act III: Breaking Past Apologetics As I mentioned, apologetics is really heating up, with two major camps. One who […]