[…] to keep my Mormon roots alive by inviting me to continue to rethink my Mormon background and share the results with others. The first was Maureen Ursenbach Beecher who got me so involved in […]
[…] more adult perspective. Many of the essays have appeared by different titles in both DIALOGUE and Deseret News. The volume itself is soft bound, cream colored, with a black-and-white illustration on the front cover, […]
[…] (Journal History, 5 Sept. 1848, 4). At the 1862 general conference, participants clapped their hands together (Deseret News, 15 Oct. 1862). Beginning in 1892, with the capstone laying at the Salt Lake Temple, participants […]
[…] I would restate the title of our panel and instead of saying “Go Ye Into All the World: To Convert or To Serve?” I would say “Go Ye Into All the World: To Serve […]
[…] persuasive examples, that we should be wary of facile assumptions about environmental borrowings, a position I fully share. Yet I see no reason to argue the opposite extreme typical of folk Mormonism—that revelation of […]
[…] laws enacted by the legislature rather than laws enacted by Congress or other states (JD 1:96-103; Deseret News, 15 Nov. 1851; Brooks 2:407-8). Although Smith did not specifically mention it, a case earlier that […]
[…] from the east and turning down Rue Universite to the church. I joined them and found an English-speaking participant who explained they had made a twelve-mile march beginning that morning, an annual pilgrimage complete […]
[…] seekers. Many of us feel that questioning did not end with Joseph Smith and that we all share responsibility for our own destinies. Consequently, DIALOGUE provides an outlet for divergent views, new ideas, and […]
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[…] of which seems to have marked virtually every aspect of the Church’s encounter with the modern, gentile world. As both a Mormon historian and teacher of religion at BYU, Cowan is aware that some […]