Ethnic Groups and the LDS Church
April 11, 2018Dialogue 25.4 (Winter 1992): 81–96 A history of ethnic wards and branches as the church struggled with integration vs. segregation of immigrant communities.
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A Strange Phenomena: Ernest L. Wilkinson, the LDS Church, and Utah Politics
April 11, 2018[…] notorious Hell’s Half-Acre district, where blind eyes turned to cock-fighting and bootlegging, he had been fascinated by the nature and use of power. By the time he was fifty, he had secured a string […]
The Seduction of H. Lyman Winger
April 6, 2018[…] meeting. It must have gone overtime again. That, or she and Kathy Simpson were solving some imminent world crisis. He felt an overwhelming loneliness challenged only by fatigue. He switched on his answering machine […]
Theology for the Approaching Millennium: Angels in America, Activism, and the American Religion
April 3, 2018[…] Mormons are largely represented as provincial, conservative, small-minded individuals who are ill-prepared to cope with the real world—by which Kushner seems to mean about six blocks of New York City. The play’s Mormonism, on […]
The Reorganized Church, the Decade of Decision, and the Abilene Paradox
April 2, 2018Dialogue 31.1 (Spring 1998): 47–65 In this essay I intend to build on my earlier work on the Reorganized Church and the decade of decision it faces in the 1990s.
The Danish Genesis of Virginia Sorensen’s Lotte’s Locket
March 28, 2018[…] The food was prepared as I had seen it from the beginning of my time in the world. The faces of Danish farmers and shopkeepers were like the faces I had known all my […]
A Defense of the Authority of Church Doctrine
March 21, 2018[…] a morally binding obligation. Likewise, if we were to trick an Esperanto speaker with no understanding of English into saying these words, assuring him—in Esperanto—that they actually mean, “I enjoy eating fresh oysters with […]
Modernism and Mormonism: James E. Talmage’s Jesus the Christ and Early Twentieth-Century Mormon Responses to Biblical Criticism
March 19, 2018During a Sunday School class I was teaching, a question came up about the lineage of Mary, mother of Jesus. A knowledgeable and respected class member answered that Mary was a descendent of David. […]
Archive of the Covenant: Reflections on Mormon Interactions with State and Body
March 23, 2021Dialogue 53.4 (Winter 2020): 79–107 In the logic of Mormon theology, an internal lack of faith is in part a result of the mismanagement of my mortal embodiment. Part of the reason that the […]
Bode and Iris
July 17, 2019[…] scarcely a quarter mile from the café. It led to an abandoned prisoner of war camp from World War II—more than sixty years in the past. It was an eerie, unhallowed place, and people […]