Taking Up the Cross
March 28, 2018[…] others. The Lord commanded his servants in modern times to “take up your cross, follow me, and feed my sheep.” (D&C 112:14) Whenever we give up our selfish desires and comforts to lift up […]
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Remembering the 1849–50 Pratt Expedition | William B. Smart and Donna T. Smart, eds., Over the Rim: The Parley P. Pratt Exploring Expedition to Southern Utah, 1849–50
March 28, 2018[…] The diary entries range from Campbell’s lengthy official rec ord with a detailed account of mileage, obstacles, feed, and other matters to the stirring thoughts and briefer commentary of the others, who were often […]
Eclipsed by the Sons
March 28, 2018I originally wrote this essay for a panel discussion at the second Counterpoint Conference for Mormon Women in 1994 in Salt Lake City. The eight years since then have changed the relative position of women…
The Danish Genesis of Virginia Sorensen’s Lotte’s Locket
March 28, 2018[1]Describing her research for The Proper Gods, a novel about the Yaqui Indians and their culture, Virginia Sorensen said her work had been “an excursion into cultural anthropology” that she thought would continue the rest…
Defending Magic: Explaining the Necessity of Ordinances
March 28, 2018In this paper I want to deal with a large gap in Christian theology, in general, and in LDS theology, in particular. The gap is the lack of explanation of the moral necessity of religious…
Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the American Renaissance
March 27, 2018Dialogue 35.3 (Fall 2003):9a–128
I am a literary critic who has spent a professional lifetime reading, teaching, and writing about literary texts. Much of my interest in and approach to the Book of Mormon lies with the text—though not just as a field for scholarly exploration.
Spreading Zion Southward, Part I: Improving Efficiency and Equity in the Allocation of Church Welfare Resources
March 27, 2018[…] Most of the children get only one meal a day. It would be good if we could feed them breakfast prior to church services.” Late one year, with the arrival of the holiday season, […]
Thoughts on Mormonism, Evolution, and Brigham Young University
March 27, 2018[…] have the clean and the unclean animals. You had to have a few of the clean to feed the dinosaurs and so on. One often finds the argument that the legends of dragons mean […]
Science and Religion: A Dialogue: What the Universe Means to People Like Me
March 27, 2018[…] the old Roman religion, he gave grain to the priests of the gods and told them to feed the poor as the Christian bishops had been doing. The priests, however, were confused as this […]
Search for an Epistemology: Three Views of Science and Religion
August 26, 2018Dialogue 36.1 (2003): 89–108
A claim is frequently made that science and religion are not incompatible. The contention is that science and religion can be made to co-exist by compartmentalization, that is, by carefully limiting the scope of each so that neither intrudeson the sphere of influence of the other. Such an approach is folly.