Finitism and the Problem of Evil
March 28, 2018[…] be able to eliminate evil. So why should there be any evil? This problem is, by far, the most discussed subject in the philosophy of religion. In this paper, I argue that rejecting the […]
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What is the Challenge for LDS Scholars and Artists?
March 26, 2018[…] 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 […]
Clyde Forsberg’s Equal Rites and the Exoticizing of Mormonism
March 21, 2018[…] 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] […]
Entertaining Angels Unaware
March 20, 2018[…] 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 […]
Bernard Devoto and the Mormon Tradition
September 13, 2020The 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, […]
Authority and Priesthood in the LDS Church, Part 2: Ordinances, Quorums, Nonpriesthood Authority, Presiding, Priestesses, and Priesthood Bans
October 26, 2018Dialogue 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 […]
The Historians and Mormon Nauvoo
May 1, 2018[…] 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 […]
The Aaronic Order: The Development of a Modern Mormon Sect
April 25, 2018[…] 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 […]
His Chastening Rod: Cholera Epidemics and the Mormons
April 24, 2018[…] 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 […]
New Voices, New Songs: Contemporary Poems by Mormon Women
April 22, 2018The 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 […]