White Shell
March 22, 2018[…] sent her away. “It’s the chance to get educated and get ahead. To fit into the modern world outside the reservation.” This was after weeks of exasperated attempts to find out why Mary had […]
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Revisiting Joseph Smith and the Availability of the Book of Enoch
November 4, 2020Dialogue 53.3 (Fall 2020): 41–106 Regarding the discussions in Mormon studies and other literary sub-fields related to contemporaries of Smith, the availability of ideas about 1 Enoch and some of the actual content were […]
The Church as Broadcaster
April 25, 2018[…] a formidable broadcast institution. Through subsidiary corporations and institutions it owns sixteen radio and television stations, a sophisticated international broadcast distribution system, a Washington news bureau, a cable TV system and production and consulting divisions.
Reflections on the Documentary Hypothesis
March 29, 2018[…] on Nephi’s mention of the “five books of Moses,” which Sjodahl calls Nephi’s “testimony to a skeptical world.” James Edward Homans, who wrote under the pen name of Robert C. Webb, wrote two of […]
America’s War on Terrorism: One Latter-day Saint’s Perspective
March 27, 2018Ever since the dark hours of September 11, I have been disquieted about what is now called “The War on Terrorism.” While I share America’s moral outrage over the barbaric attacks on our nation […]
“And Now It Is the Mormons”: The Magazine Crusade against the Mormon Church, 1910–1911
March 15, 2018From September 1910 through August 1911, in an unusual confluence of focus, four popular national magazines critiqued the Mormon Church and its prophet in a series of articles that Mormon leader and historian B. […]
Scrying for the Lord: Magic, Mysticism, and the Origins of the Book of Mormon
March 26, 2018[…] JOSEPH SMITH GREW UP in a time and place where folk magic was an accepted part of the landscape. Before he was a prophet, he was a diviner, or more specifically, a scryer who […]
Coming of Age? The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the 1960s
April 7, 2018Dialogue 28.4 (Winter 1995): 31–55 In many respects the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of the 1960s mirrored the general tumult, if not the details, of the larger American society.
Cunning and Disorderly: Early Nineteenth-Century Witch Trials of Joseph Smith
December 10, 2021Dialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 35–70 When we assess Joseph Smith’s early trials as if the word “pretended” indicated deliberate deception on Joseph’s part, we miss the larger picture.
Mormonism: From Its New York Beginnings
April 22, 2018[…] thee. Go thy way, walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments. . . . Behold, the world . . . have turned aside from the Gosoel and keep not my commandments. They draw […]