A 1945 Perspective
May 5, 2020[…] he has practiced it on believing souls since Adam. He wins a great victory when he can get members of the Church to speak out against their leaders and to “do their own thinking.” […]
[…] he has practiced it on believing souls since Adam. He wins a great victory when he can get members of the Church to speak out against their leaders and to “do their own thinking.” […]
A formidable challenge faces those who try to write confidently about Mormonism only to be denied access to critical resources. It is widely felt among those who follow Mormon scholarship that both Leonard J. Arrington and…
[…] of Latter-day Saints is the sacred hosanna shout. Elder Bruce R. McConkie has written: At the dedicatory services of temples and in certain other solemn assemblies, the saints follow the pattern set by the […]
[…] Singing in the choir became one of the pillars of my spiritual life. Most of my journal writing was done in doctors’ waiting rooms. One day I recorded, in a confused metaphor, that I […]
[…] over these issues in the case of BYU. The absence has created a vacuum attracting interest in writings which detail instances and issues heretofore substantiated largely by rumor. One could ask whether the selection […]
[…] content and language of the Book of Mormon. His own forgeries provided samples of Martin Harris’s hand writing, and he procured a photograph of Emma Smith’s handwriting, both of which would be needed to […]
[…] to write for Dialogue on the position of the widow in the Church, but I could never get past the first sentence, which was: “There is no place for a widow in the Church […]
[…] Tanner. I next turned my attention to non-Mormon authors with reputations for a little more objectivity. Their writings, though much more even in tone, did little to ease my growing concerns about early Church […]
[…] “in days of long ago. … ” Paul rebuked me for the sacrilege but could not alto gether stifle a snicker of his own. Latter-day Saints who interpret the scriptures literally must exercise great […]
[…] example, Albert Somerford and James Dibowski, renowned forensic examiners of questioned documents, each with nearly forty years service in criminal investigations with the U.S. Postal Service, and neither in any way related to Mormonism […]