[…] 2013):138–177 In this paper, I argue that this preoccupation with structural collapse legitimizes a critical consideration of the way that language functions in the book, rendering the Book of Mormon particularly well-suited to a […]
On December 4, 1920, apostles David O. McKay and Hugh J. Cannon set off on an around-the– world journey to visit every mission in the world and some of the most isolated congregations of […]
[…] and one that has evaded past economic analysis, is the extent to which Smith domesticated the economic world: “Smith’s emphasis is on household rather than management, which is why it looks like he is […]
[…] his eyes ask. “Can she hear us?” “Perhaps on some level,” the doctor says in precisely enunciated English. “She is agitated.” “Maybe it’s nicotine withdrawal,” Carma offers. “She smokes a pack or two a […]
Dialogue 48.1 (Spring 2015):169–177 In this “From the Pulpit,” Jared Hickman discussed the self-confessed weaknesses of multiple authors in the Book of Mormon, indicating that the text is not the literal word of God. […]
Nearly thirty-five years ago, Merrill Bradshaw wrote: “It seems almost unbelievable that after all these years of the development of Mormon thought we still have no genuine Mormon aesthetic theory.”Such a statement might initially […]
Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought turns 50 this year. So do I, and the similarities don’t end there.
[…] my family and have extramarital affairs but break my covenants. I could divorce my wife and remarry, breaking up my family but rediscovering my sexuality and stay within the rules. Or I could somehow […]
[…] brim with food, first aid supplies, and water jugs. It was the most organized thing in the world, like a library. I opened a Tupperware thing filled with those big Hershey bars. I sat […]
[…] a really generative way of thinking about Christ—just as language aids me in mediating between myself the world, Christ is a point of mediation, a fulcrum for a relationship between my local, sinful experience […]