Refashioned beyond recognition, Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Games in February 2002. While the world partied Olympically—Budweisers in hand, whooping it up in chaotic street fetes—Latter-day Saints found haven in the LDS Conference […]
Each spring the Christian world celebrates the most important week in history—Passion Week or Holy Week, the time between Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem and his atonement, death, and resurrection. Throughout the world the […]
Apples! Bags and boxes of apples! So many of them lined the perimeter of our garage that the car hardly fit. It was mid-October, and I stood there counting the apples picked from our […]
The apologetic works of Clive Staples (“Jack”) Lewis have transcended denominational boundaries to reach an impressively diverse Christian audience. From the beginning of his apologetic career in the mid-1930s, Lewis received letters from […]
[…] We assumed he had told her where he stayed. But she wasn’t entirely oriented to the sober world and she had pounded on several doors, knowing she was looking for us, but the wrong […]
When my parents died, I inherited our family’s Buddhist altar, or butsudan. It now sits in my living room in Lexington, Massachusetts. I pray before it about twice a month. I burn a stick […]
Dialogue 54.3 (Fall 2021): 41–65 However, the 1886 Revelation and subsequent statement also raised their own doctrinal questions that were continually developed through the lineage that became Woolleyite Mormonism. Namely, why was the resurrected […]
[…] once said, “[We] must do more than go along with what [we] find. [We] must lift the world.”[5] But how to lift when all I want to do is shrink? To straighten, to forgive, […]
Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 29–44 Smith considers “why would any self-aware Black person find Mormonism the least bit appealing given its ignoble history of racial exclusion and marginalization?”
[…] the brightness, and wheels around to face his students, careless of the fact that he represents the world they will work to bury the memory of. Ignorant of the fact that he’s lucky to […]