[…] 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 […]
Dialogue 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 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 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 […]
During 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
Dialogue 52.2 (Summer 2019): 59–84 Due to the fact that visiting with angels isn’t part of the normal human experience, it makes it hard for historians to prove that it happened through an academic […]
Dialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 65–68 If there is no history of ancient Antarctica, there is a valid reason for it. Stone Age man penetrated every continent except Antarctica, and until modern times, Antarctica was unexplored
[…] he do? He’d say to me, “Look you’ve no business fooling with laundry. There’s plenty in the world who would just be glad to do that washing. Here’s a girl who wants to work […]
The present escalation in nuclear weapons technology between the United States and the Soviet Union has progressed beyond the point where any increase in such weaponry necessarily results in increased national security. It […]