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. […]
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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 […]
[…] is a “childhood notion that it’s possible for things to stay the same, that everything in this world does not have to become old and tired and undone” (18). This collapse of the old […]
[…] was largely occupied with expanding the school’s size and its academic reputation. His goal of creating the world’s most important university depended, he believed, on controlling not only academic and political life for faculty, […]
[…] way your hand moves to catch a ball. If God didn’t answer prayers, I thought, then the world was a lie, but that couldn’t be true because I was kneeling on it. I could […]