Birds, across cultures and time, hold a rich tapestry of symbolic meanings, entwining life and death, omens and auguries, angels and spiritual guides. They are often seen as carriers of the departed souls, and at […]
I had a girlfriend and ever since I knew her when she was in the eighth grade, she always said, “I’m going to be a writer. I’m going to be a steady contributor to […]
Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 155–180 This article tells the impact of LDS racial teachings on a single family history, the Marshalls, from Alabama in the 19th c. to Filmore, Utah in the present.
[…] dominant in the Church, then we may just as well close up shop and say to the world that Mormonism is a failure.”[1] Shortly before Elder Smith wrote to Commissioner West, Snell himself received […]
[…] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Century 1, 6 vols. [CHC] (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1930), 2: 49. [31] CHC 2: 69. [32] Earlier he had been involved in efforts […]
[…] Christianity, liberal theologians led their churches away from so-called myth, error, and intellectual bondage into the broader world of science, philosophy, and scholarship.[5] That Lyman might be receptive to such a movement was apparent […]
[…] us, encouraged us. We had available one of the great collections of primary source material in the world. There was much that needed to be done. In meetings between Leonard, Jim, and me, and […]
[…] politics than Lutherans have. Luther’s Two Kingdom theory—that the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of the world coexist, but separately—applied Christianity more directly to personal ethics than to social ethics, and allowed a […]
[…] twenty Book of Mormon personalities and found them as diverse as many of those found in the world’s other scriptures. The Book of Mormon is a very complex canon of scripture that ought not […]
[…] England shares his reasons for why Joseph Smith introduced polygamy and then removed it as one of the commandments. England argues that polygamy was a faith testing experience which lead them to in his […]