[…] accepts it as divine writ or not. Joseph Smith’s involvement with the pre-European past of the New World continued to be strong, long after 1830, when the Book of Mormon was published. In 1834, […]
[…] But if art and religion share a common end and a common enemy, they also share a mutual distrust—of each other. True, each may use the materials and techniques of the other, but each […]
[…] object can be subsumed under the broader paradigm of myth/history. Only occasionally in Western thought have the worlds of rational, linear, thought and of relational, intuitive or imaginative insight been brought consciously together in […]
[…] system of religious education. The mission and the Church have also used public radio and a small newspaper to inform potential Latter-day Saints as well as members about church matters and teachings. The foregoing […]
[…] down for lack of funding, 12,000 people turned out for a hastily organized protest rally. The local newspaper, the Tri-City Herald, often runs pro-nuclear editorials. Sometimes when I read stories about leaks in Hanford’s […]
[…] time when they were cancelling many other regular programs in order to give more air time to news about the war situation, which was now growing critical. His moving account of what happened after […]
[…] a single seed. Some are mirrors, with each element corresponding to a specific parallel in our own world for the purposes of allegory. Some are photocopies, carefully repeating standard tropes, while others are stadiums, […]
Dialogue 54.1 (Spr ing 2021): 17–28
Huston argues that we should interpret that text in its historical context and glean from it new possibilities. Drawing on feminist interpretive strategies, Huston reads for the “theological […]
Dialogue 29.4 (Winter 1998):59–83
THE BOOK OF MORMON HAS OCCASIONALLY been portrayed as a deficient first novel. Its characters appear flat and stereotypical; the plots and characters seem to lack moral subtlety; and so […]
Dialogue 49.4 (W inter 2016): 87–108
The history behind a letter that was written by missionary Jedediah Morgan Grant to Joseph Smith, which contained information about Susan Hough Conrad and her brief love writings […]