Thousands of Latter-day Saints were first introduced to William E. Berrett and the Church’s history when they were assigned in seminary to read his book The Restored Church (1940). Initially written in the late […]
The Dialogue journal has been around for over 40 years (45!) providing an important space for the independent exploration of Mormonism from a broad range of perspectives.
[…] prepared by Richard L. Evans, A Century of Mor monism in Great Britain (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1937), repeats the Kimball account. So does the sesquicentennial history by V. Ben Bloxham, James […]
[…] sleep with greater security? As I doze comfortably among the most decent and moral people in the world, I know I will be neither robbed nor murdered. I have even attempted to reactivate a […]
[…] ways of looking at Mormon theology. First, he describes what I call traditional Mormon theology, which emphasizes the themes that Joseph Smith articulated toward the end of his life and that Brigham Young, Parley P. […]
[…] MacMurray imagines how it would be for his seventeen-year-old daughter Heidi to have been born a third world child. How would she function in the Church — or in the world even? Would she […]
[…] promise of contemporary Mormon women more realistically than she. Underlying these stories is a sense of the world’s irremediable ills. In many of them, it is Sillitoe’s express purpose to uncover those ills. The […]
A clergyman visiting Salt Lake City was invited to the Tabernacle where Heber C. Kimball addressed the congregation. The minister was so disturbed by Kimball’s impish and impious ways that had his own family […]
I first encountered Reed Smoot more than two decades ago while researching the life and political career of Parley P. Christensen, a Utah political maverick who became the Farmer-Labor party nominee for president in […]
[…] the presence of two card-carrying Gentiles—Donald Worster and Richard Etulain—whose fresh perspectives are sorely needed in the insular world of Mormon scholarship. Like most collaborative projects, the essays vary considerably. Many contain personal reminiscences of […]