Mormonism in Modern Japan
April 6, 2018[…] dependent as it is on lay leadership, cannot thrive on the models and methods of the commercial world. The state of the church in Japan as elsewhere, both at present and in the future, […]
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The Johannine Comma: Bad Translation, Bad Theology
April 4, 2018The portion of 1 John 5:7-8 highlighted in bold has long given biblical scholars pause for thought. Not just modern, “secular,” or “liberal” scholars, either. A physics professor of mine once told his […]
After the (Second) Fall: A Personal Journey toward Ethnic Mormonism
April 2, 2018[…] correct experience, the experience publicly personified by my father. Compartmentalizing, that is, keeping different understandings of the world separate from each other, is a common strategy, especially, it seems, for Mormons. To illustrate the […]
“Come Let Us Go Up to the Mountain of the Lord”: The Salt Lake Temple Dedication
April 1, 2018[…] of the Salt Lake temple constituted one of the most important events in the history of the world. Due to the sacred nature of temple dedications, the church does not grant access to the […]
The Path of the Wanderer: Autobiographical Theory and the Personal Essay
March 30, 2018[…] the act of remembering the past in the present, the autobiographer imagines into existence another person, another world, and surely it is not the same, in any real sense, as that past world that […]
The Challenge of Honesty
March 28, 2018[…] passion for honesty. They are scrutinizing centuries-old suppositions and re-examining current attitudes and goals. In the Protestant world, the writings of Bultmann, Bonhoeffer, Tillich, and of the Bishop of Woolwich are evidence of this […]
A Voice from the Land of Zion: Elder Erastus Snow in Denmark 1850 to 1852
March 28, 2018A few years ago while visiting a used bookstore in the Old City (Gamla Stan) section of Stockholm, I asked the proprietor whether he had any materials about Mormons. He brought out a small […]
On Fidelity, Polygamy, and Celestial Marriage (vol. 20, no. 4, Winter 1987)
March 28, 2018[…] Brigham Young, and one of the strongest public advocates of polygamy, was quoted in the New York World, 19 November 1869, as saying, “A successful polygamous wife must regard her husband with indifference, and […]
A Biographer’s Burden: Evaluating Robert Remini’s Joseph Smith and Will Bagley’s Brigham Young
March 26, 2018[…] citizens, especially the poor, a sense of self-worth and a sense of belonging. In a constantly changing world, one in which the future seemed so uncertain, his followers found an identity in a community […]
An Interview with Darrell Spencer
March 22, 2018[…] short story offered in America. For Darrell, his “life is about writing and what it means”-inventing a world, rather than mirroring one—and he hopes “to write stories that will break your heart.” Douglas: What […]