by John-Charles Duffy
Originally published in Spring 2008
Writing in the mid-1990s, Mormon-watcher Massimo Introvigne made a counterintuitive observation about debates over Book of Mormon historicity among Mormon intellectuals, as compared to analogous debates between Protestant fundamentalists and liberals. Fundamentalists, despite their reputation for being anti-scientific, were “deeply committed to Enlightenment concepts of ‘objective knowledge,’ and ‘truth,’” [...]

by Eugene England
Originally published in Spring 2002

Editor’s Note: July 22, 2010 would have been Eugene England’s 77th birthday. The Eugene England Foundation has launched a website, eugeneengland.org to make his work accessible to the many who have appreciated his work over the decades, and to those lucky folks who will discover it for the [...]

by Lester E. Bush, Jr.
This essay originally appeared in Dialogue 8 (Spring 1973).[p.54]
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… So long as we have no special rule in the Church, as to people of color, let prudence guide, and while they, as well as we, are in the hands of a merciful God, we say: Shun every appearance of evil.
W.W. Phelps, [...]

by Richard F. Haglund, Jr.
Originally published in Autumn-Winter 1973
Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hand are opposed to one another. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped.
—SIR WILLIAM BRAGG
For most of [...]

by Cecilia Konchar Farr
Originally published Fall 1995 (28:03)
LUCRETIA MOTT, A NINETEENTH-CENTURY QUAKER minister and suffragist, delivered a speech at a Philadelphia women’s rights convention in 1854 in which she discussed the day of Pentecost. She said:

Then Peter stood forth—some one has said that Peter made a great mistake in quoting the prophet Joel—but he stated [...]