[…] of the two peoples’ association during centuries of bondage, but because the Nile culture enriched the known world. As recently as Dickens’s time, quacks could attract crowds by claiming the title, “Doctor of Egypt.” […]
Dialogue 18.2 (Summer 1985): 116–127 Women in the Mormon Church are encouraged toward traditional roles and attitudes that discourage personal, familial, and societal change. The ideal female role is that of a non-wage-earning wife […]
Dialogue 18.2 (Summer 1985): 92–113 During the last twenty-five years, Reorganized Latter Day Saints have struggled to discover what it means to be the body of Christ in the modern world.
[…] If he’d just drop those skeptical blinders long enough to see what’s really going on in this world. . . .” Carmen Maria Stavely, whose exotic given names trailed a deliberately homespun life like […]
[…] it is unperceptive to dismiss Mormonism “as little more than an elaborate idiosyncratic strain of the nineteenth-century search for primitive Christianity” (p. 68), or to perceive twentieth century Mormonism as “an idiosyncratic Protestant denomination” […]
Dialogue 18.4 (Winter 1984): 65–80 Shortly after the church was organized, one of Joseph Smith’s main priorities during his lifetime was preaching to the Native Americans, who he believed to be the descendants of […]
[…] Discourses of Brigham Young as a seventeen-year-old, and the quality of Brother Brigham’s mind, which saw this world astutely but looked through it into the eternal worlds without even a blink of separation, intoxicated […]
[…] quoted in the 1975 Seminary Teachers Manual: “Why is there so much loneliness and unhappiness in this world? Could this be because we disobey God, we fail his tests, we think too much is […]
[…] this breech of Senate decorum but took no action as the spectators rapidly cleared the chamber bearing news of the bill’s passage (CR, 1217). The Edmunds Bill first appeared before the House of Representatives […]
[…] exhausted, often frustrated, but she never once wondered if it was worth it. Of course maybe the world just seemed more hopeful then. Last year an old boyfriend, Mark, who had just turned thirty-five, […]