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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Dialogue 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
LDS 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 […]
[…] real events, but over time has accumulated a number of supernatural elements borrowed from the Iroquoian cultural world (especially our creation story) and the traditions of other nations.” Scholars have devoted much attention to […]
[…] however, serve not only as a nod to Mormonism’s quirky past but also an initiation into a world of symbols, sigils, and hidden meanings. Written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, Heretic […]
[…] 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,” […]