One day when my BYU Greek class was awaiting the arrival of our teacher, Tom Rogers popped his head in the doorway and talked to us for ten or fifteen minutes or so. (One […]
Marvin Hill argued in 1989 that the fundamental problem early Mormonism was designed to address was the problem of pluralism. Pluralism, according to Hill, caused a situation of social disintegration and insecurity to which […]
Jonathan Z. Smith famously remarked that “a comparison is a disciplined exaggeration in the service of knowledge.”One of the insights that has animated the study of comparative religion in the past several decades is […]
[…] feel less certain, though my continual return to her faith is a necessary part of me, and the humility at the core of Christianity argues for a return. The recent fire, destruction, and transformation […]
[…] what follows, I will suggest that Alma 5, somewhat like Lehi’s dream, begins with an account of the forefathers (men and women) passing through a wilderness only to find a special tree and its […]
[…] as you are, and have been, will lose their children, when she has experienced enough of the world, she will be glad to return, and perhaps bring her husband with her.” Brigham Young to […]
[…] Wilson’s plea, this remains a controversial appeal. Summer 1969 examines an interesting, initially promising approach to New World archeology, a project that included Latter-day Saints interested in locating a context for the Book of […]
In his 2005 commencement speech, the late novelist David Foster Wallace provided an unexpectedly frank description of American adulthood for the recent graduates of Kenyon College. Listing painfully familiar annoyances associated with what he […]
[…] its adherents to think for themselves, and quotes William J. Whalen’s The Latter-day Saints in the Modern World (which he depends on heavily as “the best book on the Mormons”) to the effect that […]
[…] In every field modern culture has produced revolutionary changes: atomic fission, vehicles to explore space, the spectacular world of synthetics, recent medical wonders that prolong life and eliminate crippling diseases, cures for both mental […]