Dialogue 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 […]
Dialogue 1.4 (Spring 1966): 15–42 Not very long after the death of Sidney Rigdon, the influential preacher and compatriate to Joseph Smith in the first years of the Church, his son, John Wickliffe Rigdon, […]
General History Allen, Edward J. Second United Order Among the Mormons. New York: AMS Press, 1967. $12.50 Reprint of 1936 edition. Bennett, John C. The History of the Saints: Or an Expose of Joe […]
In his important study of Language, Belief, and Experience, the ethnographer Rodney Needham tells of a dream which disturbed his sleep one night. He found himself among a people he had once studied, the […]
In June 2004, I found myself, late on a Saturday night, climbing underneath the dressing room doors of the Manhattan New York Temple. Audio/visual equipment for the next morning’s temple dedication blocked most of […]
[…] understanding both the nature of reality as well as how others ought to live properly in the world. This “narcissistic” orientation toward the world, Oakes argues, ultimately derives from early childhood experiences. In those […]
Dialogue 52.2 (Spring 2019):1–58Attributing the Book of Mormon’s origin to supernatural forces has worked well for Joseph Smith’s believers, then as well as now, but not so well for critics who seem certain natural […]
[…] with relief. His disclaimer read, in part, “I do most earnestly hope that the Saints throughout the world will reject every unsound doctrine which they may discover in the ‘Seer’ or in any of […]
[…] address, Elder Glenn L. Pace asked the question, “Faced with ever louder cries for help from the world, how do we determine where to focus our efforts?” This essay asks a related question: How […]
[…] also observed conservative Mormons with one foot in the LDS Church and the other in the Fundamentalist world. Among other characteristics, the various groups have different attitudes toward the source of priesthood authority, the centrality […]