[…] “[T]he Quaker peace testimony [is] the most remarked-on feature of the Religious Society of Friends. When the world‘s people think of Friends, they think of our [fundamental disapproval] of war, and when Quakers want […]
[…] even before he and Beth married. Sometimes he would write, “Thank you for bringing Beth into this world.” Other times, “You’re the mother that I never had.” Although he did have a mother: a […]
Tongues of fire. All attentive persons within traditions that accept the New Testament are at least familiar with the phrase. Certainly I remember it from childhood when I celebrated the Feast of Pentecost as […]
[…] societies insulated by affluence, where life runs in routine and moves by diversion, it is visible that the word of God is something most people get along very well without. But in the lives […]
[…] New Mormon History were of two generations. The first group was “for the most part, survivors of World War II, educated by the G. I. Bill, and thus part of the greatest achievement in […]
I well remember the spring and summer of 1965 when Gene England, Wesley Johnson, Paul Salisbury, Joseph Jeppson, and I got together to explore the idea of an unofficial Mormon publication. There were lively […]
Just about twenty years ago, the editors of Dialogue commissioned a general survey of subscribers. The results were published in its spring 1987 issue under the title, “The Unfettered Faithful,” intended to evoke an […]
Dialogue 39.4 (Winter 2006): 58–67 I spoke as a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints/Community of Christ. As a result, I had a decidedly different perspective on Joseph […]
[…] we really talk about her average monthly electric bill? Why didn’t she lead us further into the world of that play? Why didn’t she explain the impenetrable language that we had just chopped our […]
[…] able to live with uncertainty, to be able to cope with the insecurities of an exceedingly complex world in order to control it would be a higher achievement religiously, I think.”[2] In other words, […]