John Tarjan

JOHN TARJAN is associate professor of management and MIS at CSU, Bakersfield. He and his wife, Janet, are Sunstone correspondents.

The Unfettered Faithful: An Analysis of the Dialogue Subscribers Survey

Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 1

During the spring of 1984, the editors of DIALOGUE sent a short questionnaire to all of its then-2,300 subscribers plus 600 who had let their subscriptions lapse in the previous year. At that point, the journal had been edited in Salt Lake City for exactly two years.

Heavenly Father or Chairman of the Board?: How Organizational Metaphors Can Define and Confine Religious Experience

Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 3

Many Latter-day Saints worry that as the Mormon Church has become more corporate in nature, it has not retained its strictly religious focus. Some have argued that its extensive financial holdings have made the Church…