The Book of Mormon opens with a provocative conundrum: how can the sensory world of revelation most effectively be rendered in language? After introducing himself and his process of making scripture, the prophet-narrator Nephi […]
[…] 2023): 109–123 As an adult, I learned that 1993 represented a kind of death for members of the Mormon studies community. Since the 1970s, Latter-day Saint women had been challenging the limited role the […]
Dialogue 52.3 (Fall 2019): 1–18 Shields argues that if you deny or dismiss Sidney Ridgon’s contributions to the early church, then the scripture canon during this time would need to be reinterpreted.
[…] me the lesson the Lord has labored to teach since man first became a part of the world and the one great lesson the prophets have warned He must teach again in the Final […]
[…] Utah: Brigham Young University, 1969. $2.50. Crocker, E. W. History of the 145th Field Artillery Regiment of World War I. Provo, Utah: J. Grant Stevenson, 1968. Concerning the Utah Militia. Curtis, Lindsay R. And […]
“Among the Mormons” is Dialogue’s ongoing effort to keep its readers abreast of Mormon bibliography. Three times a year we present bibliographical listings containing, in separate columns, theses and dissertations, books and related publications, […]
[…] being an idiot as a man can be, and have any sense left to pass through the world decently; and it appeared to me that the cause of his success was the amount of […]
Dialogue 12.2 (Summer 1979): 22–36 Elijah Abel, a black man ordained to the priesthood, was restricted in his church participation starting in 1843, even though he was well respected by both members and leaders. […]
[…] that he wasn’t. Kevin Houston had that particular kind of self-assurance which in a secular and sophisticated world is taken as evidence of old money. In Kevin, however, whose prosperity was, in fact, nearly […]
I found this philosophical bit by Chip Janis in In the New World (1988), a little book of poems put together by young Indian students at the Pretty Eagle School and St. Charles Mission […]