<i>Dialogue 35.3 (Fall 2003):9a–128</i><br>I am a literary critic who has spent a professional lifetime reading, teaching, and writing about literary texts. Much of my interest in and approach to the Book of Mormon lies […]
On Thursday, March 30, 1989, eight missionaries and their new mission president, Wolfgang Paul, were driven from Hamburg, West Germany, to the German Democratic Republic (GDR). They expected a delay of several hours at […]
<i>Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 45–81</i><br>Brooks explains that “Mormons will have to choose to acknowledge the pivotal and pervasive role of white supremacy in the founding of LDS institutions and the growth of the Mormon movement.”
[…] that somehow an articulate and systematic philosophy is likely to provide such a system of shared meaning. The stock example is, of course, the Middle Ages, when such theologians as Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus […]
[…] the Constitution rather than in the formal procedures and institutions which it establishes? If Providence shaped the American system of government, does it follow that all other systems are generated without supernatural influence? If […]
[…] European society. Overcrowded cities, exploitation of industrial workers through wage slavery, prices deter mined purely by the market and at the expense of human needs, commercial insurance, and the social evil of prostitution, all […]
[…] a willingness on their part that the leader of the Mormon Church take an active role in politics, in spite of his opposed opinion, and also a reverence for the man and the office […]
[…] States—27 percent of total Church membership in 1990. In contrast, the United States had 56 percent {Deseret News Church Almanac 1991). When one considers these figures in light of the ever-increasing Church growth rate, even […]
<i>Dialogue 28.3 (Fall 1995): 1–12</i><br>As American feminist thinkers and organizers, we’ve walked a long road since then, a road that has led us farther and farther away from religious discourse and Christian justification. Our […]
LDS attitudes towards war and peace in general have been covered fairly comprehensively in the past decade or so. The attitudes are complex and generally attempt to strike a balance between the duty to […]