The Politics of Mormon History
March 23, 2021[…] of the saints—to promote a narrative in which God’s people are always persecuted by the wicked outside world as a sign of their chosenness. But Mormon history cannot do this. When you pick up […]
[…] of the saints—to promote a narrative in which God’s people are always persecuted by the wicked outside world as a sign of their chosenness. But Mormon history cannot do this. When you pick up […]
[…] At Simplot’s dehydrating plant, Dad tended two boilers to steam the water from potatoes for soldiers during World War II. An African American began working on the potato production line, and in a few […]
Brigham Young University made headlines in 2012 for a series of controversies that would be, to say the least, unusual on most college campuses: a student-led push for the university to sell caffeinated beverages […]
[…] by a sentence or two about how brilliant my child is or how much she enjoys his English class. On the whole, it is a pleasant exchange. But my name is not Mrs. Harding. […]
[…] will take the J-Rig out of the water at South Cove. Tomorrow they’ll be back in the world of worry, but she pushes that out of her mind right now. Tomorrow worry. Today squint […]
Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 61–80 The photographs and essays featured in this issue of Dialogue come from Kimberly Anderson’s Mama Dragon Story Project: A Collection of Portraits and Essays from Mothers Who Love Their […]
[…] life events doom them to being remembered on little more than census rolls and tax lists. In the annals of history, most will never be mentioned in so much as a footnote. Even that […]
[…] strict Anglo-Catholics within the Protestant Episcopal Church are quite striking. In the late 1830’s, writings of the English Tractarians on the independent spiritual authority of priests struck such men as William Adams, James Lloyd […]
Professor Clark’s “Art, Religion, and the Market Place” takes us into a very interesting world in which Art and Religion (the good guys) are engaged in a deathly struggle with the Market Place (the […]
[…] of this method is most obvious when one reflects on the number of Christian denominations in the world. One reason for this great number, I suggest, is that biblical interpreters using the “proof-text” method […]