Living and Dying with Fallout
March 23, 2018Last 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 […]
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Spiritualism and “New Religions”
April 14, 2018[…] whole human race such as we bring by Spiritualism, it is tending towards the discredited and old world idea of a special priestly caste, of formal sacraments, and of a new sect, complete in […]
Science and Religion: A Dialogue: What the Universe Means to People Like Me
March 27, 2018[…] It was an opportunity to think seriously about our faith and explore its dialogue with the larger world. It was empowering to see people trying to live reflective lives that honestly integrated their scholarship […]
The Structure of the Book of Mormon: A Theory of Evolutionary Development
April 6, 2018Dialogue 29.2 (Summer 1998):129–154 WHEN JOSEPH SMITH BEGAN TO DICTATE the Book of Mormon, he did not understand the structure the book would ultimately take. He did not know that the first part of […]
Preaching the Gospel of Church and Sex: Mormon Women’s Fiction in the Young Woman’s Journal, 1889-1910
March 28, 2018[…] womanhood.[16] Underneath contrived plot lines and lofty language, Mormon women’s fiction reveals how its authors understood the world and their place in it. Their work, however stylistically immature, emerges as a valuable source for […]
“Without a Cause” and “Ships of Tarshish”: A Possible Contemporary Source for Two Unexplained Readings from Joseph Smith
March 27, 2018[…] Joseph Smith at Nauvoo, when the prophet said: He believed that among all the Churches in the world the Methodist was the nearest right, and that, as far as they went, they were right. […]
The Ideology of Empire: A View from “America’s Attic”
March 23, 2018LDS attitudes towards war and peace in general have been covered fairly comprehensively in the past decade or so. The attitudes are complex and generally attempt to strike a balance between the duty to […]
Anti-Intellectualism in Mormon History
May 4, 2018[…] leaders simply admitted the essential accuracy of the charge. “I call upon the weak things of the world, those who are unlearned and despised, to thresh the nations by the power of my Spirit,” […]
On Becoming a Universal Church: Some Historical Perspectives
April 12, 2018Dialogue 25.1 (Spring 1992): 13–36 A historical analysis of the globalization of the Church. Under President David O McKay, the Church was able to reach out to more people beyond North America and Europe, […]
Mormonism in a Post-Soviet Society: Notes from Ukraine
April 3, 2018Legend has it that in the year 988 A.D., Prince Vladimir, ruler of ancient Kievan Rus’, brought Christianity to the Slavs. The apparent catalyst for his own conversion was a plea from Emperor Basil […]