Short Creek: A Refuge for the Saints
March 27, 2018Dialogue 36.3 (Spring 2003): 71–87 Watson shares why early fundamentalists broke off from the main church and decided to leave Utah and settle Short Creek.
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Shadows on the Sun Dial: John E. Page and the Strangites
March 20, 2018[…] priest at Nauvoo, Illinois, wrote a long emotional letter on Christmas Day in 1844 which praised Mormonism, the martyred Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, Smith’s deceased brothers (Hyrum, Don Carlos, and Samuel), and current Mormon […]
The Goodness of the Church
March 20, 2018[…] part of a body of believers whose collective faith and devotion constitute a vital force in the world. I was reminded of this goodness while watching the October 2007 general conference on television. The […]
The Gilded Door
March 20, 2018[…] good spanking. Then, when the credits rolled and the lights went up, you were still in another world, gaping at the gilt-edged ceiling medallions and the sparkling chandeliers, at the towering half pillars that […]
Body and Blood
March 18, 2018[…] what he means by that. I go to punk/hardcore shows, and I’ve heard the term on the news reports about gang violence in Salt Lake. But Jacob says most of the media coverage of […]
Badge and Bryant, or, the Decline and Fall of the Dogfrey Club
March 17, 2018[…] deal of stoic resolve. Boys at play happily imagine themselves in combat conditions that in the real world leave adult soldiers—if they survive—shattered in mind and body. Furthermore, the excoriations of conscience may be […]
A Gentile Recommends the Book of Mormon
March 16, 2018Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2013):188–206 The scripture I have in mind, of course, is the Book of Mormon. What follows is a Gentile’s appreciation—even recommendation—of this well-known but largely unread example of worldclass scripture.
Creationism and Intelligent Design: Scientific and Theological Difficulties
March 16, 2018Many religious believers today are comfortable with the notion of an evolutionary process over many millions of years as God’s means for achieving the creation. In other words, they believe that, while God governed […]
Katy, My Sister
March 14, 2018We didn’t have much stuff when we moved into the new place. Not carpets or a dining table, or even curtains or beds at first. My dad must have thought if we weren’t allowed […]
As Presently Constituted: Mormon Studies in the Field of Religion | Religious Studies as Comparative Religion
March 14, 2018This paper is entitled “Religious Studies as Comparative Religion,” and its purpose is to suggest that comparative religion, as one way of engaging in religious studies, can be fruitful for historians of Mormonism.