[…] class=”alignleft size-full wp-image-4870″ alt=”barnes” src=”https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/barnes.jpg” width=”158″ height=”239″ />Title: Falling in Love with Joseph Smith: My Search for the Real Prophet In this quirky autobiographical biography of Joseph Smith the Mormon prophet, writer Jane […]
[…] theology, Mormonism largely lacks two things: People and place. Mormons who are interested in making a com fortable living typically don’t seek higher education in these areas. The Church’s schools, seminaries and institute’s focus […]
[…] The Doctrine and Covenants Made Harder: Scripture Study Questions James E. Faulconer, Richard L. Evans Chair for Religious Understanding and professor of Philosophy at BYU, has recently published what is essentially a study […]
[…] constituted authorities, has made no official pronouncement on many of them. Not all of the issues call for pro and con pieces (who would write against Margaret Blair Young’s appeal to eschew racism?). Faulconer […]
[…] Cross-posted at By Common Consent by Blair Hodges What is a human? David Grandy called my attention to Richard Dawkins calling attention to G.G. Simpson’s assertion that “all attempts to answer that question before […]
Associate Editor Matthew Bowman takes a look at counter-cult movements, apologetics, and the ongoing question of whether or not Mormons are Christian. Cross-posted at the Mormon portal at Patheos. In the nineteenth sixties and […]
[…] defending positions. Both our nation and the Constitution that governs it are built on a process designed to turn vigorous discussion and debate into manageable lumps of compromise that permit us to move ahead. […]
[…] day that color their understandings of and impact their statements about sometimes very important matters,” Dan Wotherspoon over at the Mormon Matters podcast asks Joanna Brooks and Ronda Callister to open up their hearts […]
[…] such conversations fail to pay due attention to Mormon metaphysics—the way Mormons understand the nature of matter, humans, God, and existence. His new book, Mormon Christianity, explores the development and coherence of this core […]
Cross-posted at By Common Consent by Blair Hodges 
Last week, popular Christian evangelist Ravi Zacharias returned to Salt Lake City to address […]