Stan Larson’s article “The Odyssey of Thomas Stuart Ferguson” (DIALOGUE, Spring 1990) showed the world some of the backstage drama accompanying efforts of Book of Mormon enthusiasts to link the book with demonstrable reality. […]
[…] psychically exhausted, I realized that the ghosts were with me forever. I could live sanely in this world only if I understood why a thing such as Auschwitz had been allowed to happen. It […]
[…] at three conferences of the Mormon History Association. Le nuove religioni is an encyclopedic treatment of the world’s major “new religious movements.” Within the group of religions which originated in the United States, Introvigne […]
Within the last month, six Latter-day Saint scholars in Utah, representing both liberal and conservative ends of the spectrum, have been served with notices by their ecclesiastical leaders to appear before church courts, called […]
Dialogue, 28.1 (Spring 1995): 143 – 161 The matter which I propose to examine is whether the “present understanding of Egyptian religious practice” supports Joseph Smith’s explanations of the facsimiles found in the Book […]
[…] other. It’s true 1986 was not a good year. But 1995 is the best. Nothing in the world is more exciting than my eight-year-old putting his arms around my neck and whispering in my […]
The corridors buzzed with all the chatter and anticipation of a courtroom before a major trial. At five after eleven, packs of people scurried to their seats looking greedily toward the stand. The […]
[…] in the educational system, and with religion in science. These contact/conflict points are where the secular cultural world does its business. Religion struggles to be a part of it, to influence and control behavior. […]
[…] over her shoulder, not only looking for their names or themselves on her Mac screen or on the pages between the grainy covers of the books, but searching for her secrets as well. Looking […]
I have often heard of the lesson with the milk and the ink drop: Sister Smith drips, almost tenderly, the midnight blue ink into the whiteness. I have never seen it done, but I […]