[…] and value learning, but church leaders have predicted that church members would surpass the rest of the world in their scholarly and artistic accomplishments. President John Taylor exclaimed, You will see the day that […]
[…] heading for Kenneth Woodward’s Newsweek article declares: Mormonism “is looking more Christian. But it’s still a different world.”[94] The invisible difference consists of certain Mormon beliefs—what the Economist calls “startling departures from Christian orthodoxy.”[95] […]
[…] ocean calmed Lucy and made her feel better because it reminded her she wasn’t alone in the world, and she felt instantly connected to distant places. But for the first time since she could […]
The career of Bernard DeVoto, the foremost writer and one of the greatest intellectual forces whom Utah has produced in this country, was conspicuously marked by achievements and honors. He wrote five novels, […]
Dialogue 51.1 (Spring 2018): 167–180 In the prequel to this article, I discussed in general contours the dual nature of authority—individual and institutional—and how the modern LDS concept of priesthood differs significantly from the […]
[…] ten are devoted to polygamy, while three chapters of the eleven are headed “A Kingdom of This World” and talk about government and the military, land business, industry, and finance. Another chapter discusses the […]
[…] and hell as found in most other Christian churches. The Levites’ ideal is to avoid the outside world, but they desire to be well informed about its affairs. Many “worldly” recreational activities are considered […]
[…] great wave of Irish emigrants to America in the spring of 1832. While cholera swept the Old World, millennialists in America watched for harbingers of the awaited second advent of Jesus Christ. Cholera fit […]
The sensibility described by Amy Lowell—that there is something odd about women who write serious poetry—is still given substance today by the endangered state of the species. Even I will not waste time […]
Among the things Mormon brought into the spotlight by the Sonia Johnson affair, perhaps the least well understood was the LDS notion of “excommunication.” To non-Mormons the process seemed, in Phil Donahue’s widely heard […]