[…] to hear that the mystery in his possession can be revealed through God’s prepared intervention in the world, and he derides the inferior knowledge of men, which is limited precisely because “they will not […]
[…] many it served, necessarily but I think regrettably, as a mere haven from the indifferent if not hostile world of the university. Yet, it was educationally and religiously irrevelant factors like the impact on L.D.S. […]
I have been asked to give the charge to the graduates. This demands that I shall strive to indicate to you what is important and what has significance for you above all else.
Elizabeth Fenton, Brian Hauglid and Michael Austin each review Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon by William Davis Continue Reading »
[…] stories are told by an institution reveals much about its paradigms and priorities. From a survey of the past few years of history and Mormon studies materials published about (and even by) the Church, […]
[…] Environmental Theology?,” Jason M. Brown suggests that Mormon environmental scholarship and activism focuses on what he calls the “retrieval” of “earth-affirming doctrines” with the hope that the retrieval of these teachings “will foster more […]
If Matthew Babcock’s Four Tales of Troubled Love is about something, it is about private worlds; the reconciliation of self and other; the reckoning of what two people are with each other, without each […]
Charles Dickens suggests that epochs roll into one another in a cyclical pattern. Each cycle comprises the pairing of opposites: wisdom and foolishness, belief and incredulity, Light and Darkness, virtue and vice, hope and […]
Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 201–208 “What can we do to help and make a difference in the fight for racial and social justice?” McCoy responds to the BYU students who asked these questions which […]
In her diary entry for March 20, 1848, Patty Bartlett Sessions (1795–1892) recorded an unusual note: she had begun to work on her sewing sampler, an item she had not touched for thirty-eight […]