[…] plural marriage. He was trying to illustrate the idea that prophets sometimes receive a revelation before the world is ready. Jim wouldn’t believe it. In all his years in the Church, he’d never heard […]
[…] of the Church greatly increasing their already strong positions of excellence till the eyes of all the world be upon us.”[2] In light of this sixteen-year-old vision and challenge, is it not regret table […]
[…] rather than the conservative tradition bound rural areas. The second part of Meek’s book focuses on the world of the Christian congregations. These assemblies of believers were organized around the household and existed both […]
Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 99–107 An analysis of what the individual wives’ roles are in the 19th century among plural marriages. Embry and Bradley make the argument that the daughters in a polygamous relationship […]
Dialogue 19.1 (Spring 1986): 69–75 How does the Book of Mormon present the basic doctrines of the gospel? What role should the Book of Mormon play in our religious and intellectual lives?
[…] eternal and autonomous entity—is to be found nowhere else in the philosophies, ideologies, or religions of the world. One is forced to conclude that Joseph Smith either invented it out of whole cloth, or […]
[…] His father was often gone on business trips for a week or more. David felt that the news of his father’s death was a mistake or perhaps a twisted joke he was too young […]
[…] “believe in Christ, and view his death, and suffer his cross, and bear the shame of the world” (Jacob 1:8). As I suffer a particle of Christ’s cross and seek to understand the necessity […]
[…] plural marriage, the political state of Deseret, the Deseret alpha bet, and the Mormon separation from the world were concepts that had to be abandoned, much as ancient Israel had to shed its Egyptian […]
The Lombardy poplars are almost gone now. This shouldn’t nag at me, but it does. They used to be everywhere in Utah, lining the edges of farms, marking a town’s boundaries, or marching […]