[…] religious fundamentalism in the pages of Account ing Fundamentalism; this is the text’s particular strength. Characters in Search of an Author. What is missing from the pages of Accounting for Fundamentalisms are, first, compelling […]
“We Mormons lack ‘joy in the Lord,’” Bishop Lewis told his counselors and the ward secretary at the start of bishopric meeting on Palm Sunday morning. They listened attentively. “The name of Jesus is the…
[…] Clark, “When are the Writings or Sermons of Church Leaders Entitled to the Claim of Scripture?” Church News, 31 July 1954, as reprinted in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 12 (Summer 1979): 68-81. […]
[…] reprinted in Joseph Fielding Smith, Blood Atonement and the Origin of Plural Marriage (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1905; repr. Deseret News Press, 1950), 97-101; cf. Bennett, History of the Saints, 241-50; F. […]
Johnny take a walk With your sister the moon Let her pale light in To fill up your room You’ve been living underground Eating from a can You’ve been running away from what you don’t understand U2, “Mysterious Ways” Sister Alice Dallon…
[…] Ralph V. Chamberlin’s 1925 biography, The Life and Philosophy of W. H. Chamberlin (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press). E. E. Ericksen, one of Chamberlin’s students who became head of the philosophy department of […]
[…] far too uppity for a traditionalist’s sustained comfort. A second, much earlier, sermon was preached at an English wedding in 1607 in the presence of the king. In this tender hour, officiant Robert Wilkinson […]
[…] comments on an earlier draft of this essay. The word “problematic,” used as a noun, is the English translation of the French “problematique,” a familiar term in contemporary philosophy and religious studies. We can […]
[…] 44 (27 Oct. 1897): 677-79; “The Editor Abroad,” Saints’ Herald 44 (10 Nov. 1897): 709-11; London (Ontario) News, 8 Oct. 1897. For a fuller discussion of this episode, see Roger D. Launius, Joseph Smith […]
[…] home has never been the same. It is especially hard for a three-year-old to be a displaced English speaker. Of course it’s not merely Arabic words she’s exposed to while we’re there, but Arab […]