Bearing Your Sanctimony: Monologues on Dialogue
March 30, 2018[…] been away most of the summer in Wisconsin, where it seemed he had a girlfriend. This was news, and his mother, like any mother was all inquiry. What was she like? Was she in […]
[…] been away most of the summer in Wisconsin, where it seemed he had a girlfriend. This was news, and his mother, like any mother was all inquiry. What was she like? Was she in […]
I hope I’m not extending the metaphor too far, but it seems apparent the field is less white and more colorful as the church moves into the twenty first century. Most church members are […]
[…] “What’s a testimony?” she asked. “It’s a witness that you have had a message from the other world. Mark my word. Carol has had a big one.” “They both seem like awfully decent people,” […]
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 […]
[…] which she kept her clipboard and cross word puzzles. “I’m a tough old bird,” she boasted. During World War II, she had worked in the Richmond shipyards, “like Rosie the Riveter,” she said. Jill […]
[…] Utah, and he lived in his small box of a cabin at Riverbed, fifty miles westward in the desert. Was it her asthma that kept them separate or her desire to support the family […]