Dialogue 53.2 (Summer 2020): 1–35 This article will explore how one of the most open-ended psychological interpretations of Smith’s prophetic leadership and motivation might contribute to better understanding the trajectory of this extraordinarily talented and […]
[…] (1973): 109–126 To answer that question we needed to create some instruments with which we could gather the data. We are currently engaged in that instrument-building phase. As one step in that process, we […]
Dialogue 14.3 (Fall 1981): 89–100 Joseph Smith’s 1838 account of the First Vision has taken priority in structuring Mormon identity, despite the existence of different versions. This article explores why that version is so […]
Dialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 68–97 For faithful Mormons, the thought that someone had violated the sacred confines of the eighteen-year-old Salt Lake temple, which he desecrated by photographing, was “considered as impossible as profaning […]
[…] City where he picked up his interest in astronomy and, on 11 November 1854, announced to the world that he had dis covered “The Law of Planetary Rotation.”[19] The last twenty-five years of his […]
Dialogue 31.4 (Winter 1999):190–199 It is noteworthy because, instead of laying out the original historical meaning of Isaiah, it reapplies the text to the time of Joseph Smith and to the course of Jewish […]
[…] to me of a rime when she was accompanied by a male pianist. They worked together on the piece for some weeks; and finally, when they performed, the ecstatic release, the sense of the […]
Dialogue 51.4 (Winter 2018): 49–76 What of the Latter Day Saint movement that claimed to prophetically discern the times and seasons of these latter days and also boldly proclaimed that they were the restoration church?
[…] Essays on the Past (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992), 173. [64] For introductions to polyandry in world religions and anthropology, see Prince Pe ter, A Study of Polyandry (The Hague: Mouton & Co., […]
Last summer, while I was reading the Salt Lake Tribune, I stumbled across the obituary of a beautiful woman who looked uncannily like my older sister, Ann. That’s why I read her obituary. Only […]