One month after Sidney Rigdon’s conversion to Mormonism, he visited Joseph Smith in New York, occasioning the following revelation: I say unto my servant Sidney, I have looked upon thee and thy works. I […]
Dialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128 DID JOSEPH SMITH WRITE the Book of Mormon? To this over-familiar question the orthodox Latter-day Saint answer is a resounding “No” because the official belief is that a series of […]
[…] from Rabbi Isaac Luria in which God’s divinity is shattered into pieces at the beginning of the world. I told our boys that our job as human beings is to gather the pieces of […]
[…] am age nineteen and in Clark’s Barbershop with Lloyd for his weekly duck’s butt haircut. He’s reading the Salt Lake Tribune and 1 am turning magazine pages. A coupon says, “Play a guitar in […]
I consider myself an evangelical Christian of the liberal sort, but I have many evangelical Christian relatives, friends, and students who are extremely conservative. Despite mutual respect, it appears that I have little in […]
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Recent years have seen renewed scholarly interest in the tradition of the virtues and vices.This tradition has roots in both Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman ethics, and reached the height of its Western cultural importance during […]
These things happened fifty years ago. It was 1962, the year of the World’s Fair in Seattle. I was twenty-one and had just finished my junior year at Utah State University in Logan. My […]
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