[…] encyclical letter, is a striking beginning for his papal contribution to Catholic social teaching. In a sense, the encyclical confirms one piece of conventional wisdom about his papacy—that it is a work of consolidating […]
This short piece responds to Mack C. Stirling’s article, “Violence in the Scriptures: Mormonism and the Cultural Theory of René Girard,” 43, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 59–105. I offer a counter-interpretation of what I […]
[…] bask in the reflected achievements of her husband and sons. Their job was to perform on the world’s stage; her job was to sell popcorn, pom-poms, and programs and cheer loudly from the stands. […]
[…] broadest general readership” to “speak to deeply human concerns about the past, present, and future of our world and its people” (ii). This Harline certainly does. He is eager to make the past as relevant […]
[…] 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 […]