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 51.3 (Fall 2018): 83–129 The priesthood revelation of 1978 eased some of the tension when the apostles affirmed that Blacks could now be “adopted into the House of Israel” as full participants in […]
[…] overlook. Too impossibly incredible. The fact of us all being here: way, way too out of this world to not laugh out loud. *** No place knows more about water than the desert. Its […]
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 […]
[…] our opponents; without these arguments, it would be entirely vain for me to try & enlighten the world upon this subject by reason. I could only bear my testimony that there was but one […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] (Fall 1984): 37–75 As one step in that direction, this article explores Book of Mormon usage in the pre-Utah period (1830—46), and seeks answers to the following questions: Which passages from the Book of […]
Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have engaged in missionary work since the year of the religion’s founding. But sociological research on the experience of these missionaries is still young […]