Almost two decades have elapsed since I published The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994). My book began by acknowledging and illustrating the “Americanization” thesis […]
[…] other substances that, when shared in place and over time, create true relatedness within some of the world’s least white places, such as those found in Peru. In sum, the act’s “conditional inclusion”[18] only […]
[…] universe as having divine import. In the gospel of John we read: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish […]
Dialogue 17.2 (Summer 1984): 96–105 In 1979 and 1981, members of the Roberts family gave copies of these works to the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. Roberts’s two studies, with descriptive correspondence, […]
[…] on the tip of a wizard’s cap. It was in the mesa, barricading the land from the world beyond like the Great Chinese Wall. It was in the colors, greens yellows golds browns reds […]
[…] feeling of something limitless, unbounded, something ‘oceanic’”—”a feeling of indissoluble connection, of belonging inseparably to the external world as a whole.”[7] Freud, while admitting that he had never himself experienced such a feeling, speculated […]
[…] out of my window across my lawn, I see a red toy wheelbarrow tipped over, abandoned beside the sidewalk. Its redness is something I experience distinctly. Undeniably, I might be deceived, and there is […]
[…] the encumbering web of confusion and weakness that characterizes mortality—part of what causes humans to see the world as if “through a glass, darkly” (1 Cor. 13:12). For instance, revelations on missionary work suggest […]
Dialogue 55.4 (Winter 2021): 1–50 While much has changed for women in the Church over the last half-century, much remains the same. Women consistently make up less than 3 percent of quotations in general […]
[…] was a favorite, a paraphrase of I Corinthians 1:27: “God has chosen the weak things of this world to confound the wise” (Gregg 1890, 37). Perhaps Harris saw something of himself in the passage. […]