Keith E. Norman

I Was a Stranger . . .

One hundred seventy-two years ago this coming Wednesday, July 24, the first company of Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley, which was to be their new home. Being mostly a desert, it didn’t look…

A Modern Evangelist | Bruce R. McConkie, The Mortal Messiah: From Bethlehem to Calvary

One is hopeful, upon reading Elder McConkie’s preface to his latest volume on the dealings of Christ with mankind, that new ground may be broken for Mormons in the recognition of modern findings and scholarship—the…

A Not So Great Commentary | Monte S. Nyman, Great Are the Words of Isaiah

The “words of Isaiah” constitute a body of some of the greatest religious literature in existence, both in an aesthetic and a spiritual sense. As Monte S. Nyman correctly points out in his introductory chapter,…

Adam’s Navel

A few years ago on a cross-country trip, my brother Paul and I detoured from Interstate 70 in western Missouri for some site-seeing. After stopping at the Far West temple site and the town square…

The Mark of the Curse: Lingering Racism in Mormon Doctrine

Dialogue 32.1 (Spring 1999): 119–135
Norman discusses instances where the racist teachings that justified the priesthood restrictions before 1978 continue to be taught.

The Use and Abuse of Anti-Semitism in the Scriptures

Taking Up the Cross

Thoughts on Mormonism, Evolution, and Brigham Young University

Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 1–18
Well, I was raised in a rather unscientific environment , a little farming community.

No Other Way?: Rescue for the Dead: The Posthumous Salvation of Non-Christians in Early Christianity