[…] 1990s were halcyon years for Mormons and Mormonism. The Church was the “fastest growing religion in the world”—at least, that’s what we told ourselves, aided by sociologist Rodney Stark’s grandiose projections.[1] Anything that happened […]
Dialogue 55.2 (Spring 2022): 37–72 Joseph Smith’s teachings on God found in his preaching at the April 7, 1844 general conference, known as the King Follett Sermon, and Smith’s Sermon in the Grove, given […]
[…] a hand on the other side. (53) By reaching through, one attains physical contact with the “other world” we seek in the sky. These two worlds “married” together are not merely that of humankind […]
I’m still haunted by a woman who died in our intensive care unit a decade ago. She was eighteen weeks pregnant and had a kidney infection serious enough that her lungs failed. She quickly […]
[…] don’t you tell us things like this?” Why would I tell you, Helen thinks. Who in this world likes to brag about projects that they chaired straight to failure? *** Twenty-one years after the […]
[…] largest lake. When you left the city, in any direction, you plunged at once into a green world of trees, fields, and family farms. A bonus for the Elder at this moment was that […]
[…] thought only. Mormonism has much to say about history, philosophy, and the dynamic trends within the modern world. The Book of Mormon, for example, which relates the history of two major cultures upon the […]
[…] history. The spells in these texts would insure the welfare of the dead man in the next world. They provide a means of getting there) give him certain powers in the next world, and […]
It was in the year 1930, after an unusual “calling” from the Church, that I made a momentous personal decision: to enter the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and work toward the […]
[…] began to recognize elements of irrational hatred in him, and to realize that through his eyes the world was a corrupt network of plots and schemes, of bribes and lies, where only the crafty, […]