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…
[…] in their capturing of the dilemmas of faith and intellect as well as in their quality of writing. The “Organic Evolution Controversy” chapter is superb in framing, developing, and documenting the issues. Other chapters, […]
[…] Amen (HC 2:391). For those unable to attend the Sunday dedication on 27 March, a second dedicatory service was held Thursday, 31 March where “the services of the day were commenced, prosecuted and terminated […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of the 1890s, a document Hofmann is known to have studied. The blessing, penned in the hand writing of clerk Thomas Bullock, was supported by an 1865 letter from Bul lock to Brigham Young, […]
[…] to berate myself for them. I didn’t want to suffer for anything that I’d only thought of writing. The bishop reacted very kindly to the letter, and I sensed that he really wanted to […]
[…] a strong tradition of speculative theology, I want to explain some of my objectives and methods in writing this essay. My chief purpose is to make symbolic connections, to evoke families of images, and […]
[…] 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 […]
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[…] 3:2,9, and 13 suggest that God is enthroned near a star called Kolob, and Mosiah 2:17 localizes service of God in service of one’s fellow beings, presumably on earth, Doctrine and Covenants 93:33 and […]