Professor Stewart has given us a well-written biography of Joseph Smith. The book is divided into sixteen chapters, many of which draw their titles from key statements in Mormon literature that concern the events […]
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[…] Nephi, his Mahonri, and his Stephen are all ascetic, mystical figures who demonstrate little touch with the world about them. It is as if the ideal spiritual state removes men so thoroughly from the […]
[…] it important to prove the Mormon doctrine that “the wicked go to . . . a spirit world prison house after mortal death” (p. 251), he cites Isaiah 24:22 as support: “And they shall […]
Dialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968):89 – 92 It appears that in time the mystery of the Book of Abraham will be unveiled. Meanwhile, it is significant for the Reorganized Church that undue haste and overzealous […]
[…] in my creative art. My habit of seeing only the good, pleasant, lovely, and nice in the world clashes with the reality surrounding me. Sometimes I feel slightly removed from the mainstream of secular […]
“What’s your name?” “Are you coming back?” “I love you.” These are the words of a Hopkins House child. Being young, very young, living in a poverty-ridden neighborhood . . .
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[…] as it were, with both one’s religious commitments and with the ways of learning in the academic world. In my own life, thus far, I have chosen the third model. I have had a […]