<i>Dialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 68–97</i><br> For faithful Mormons, the thought that someone had violated the sacred confines of the eighteen-year-old Salt Lake temple, which he desecrated by photographing, was “considered as impossible as profaning […]
[…] the mind through which filth passes is never the same afterwards. Don’t see R-rated movies or vulgar videos or participate in any entertainment that is immoral, suggestive, or pornographic” (Ensign, May 1986:45). It seems clear […]
In October of 1993 Dallin H. Oaks, an apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and Steve Benson, editorial cartoonist for the Arizona Republic and eldest grandson of former LDS […]
[…] part of Europe, which later—with national and Protestant expansion by sea— created daughter churches all over the world, from Greenland’s icy mountains to Kerala, from Tasmania to Curacao. In each case, new and distinctively […]
[…] pushed Elder Pratt to a public recantation in 1865. Then he published the recantation in the Deseret News, along with a denunciation of specific absolutistic doctrines of Elder Pratt, signed by the First Presidency. […]
Refashioned beyond recognition, Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Games in February 2002. While the world partied Olympically—Budweisers in hand, whooping it up in chaotic street fetes—Latter-day Saints found haven in the LDS Conference […]
[…] the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 6 vols. published 1902-12, Vol. 7 published 1932; 1978 printing), 6:308-9. Stan Larson, “The King […]
[…] got the call that Dad was in a coma. It came in the way that kind of news is supposed to arrive. The phone rang at 3 A.M. He had been ill about a […]
<i>Dialogue 39.1 (Spring 2006): 1–18</i><br>Perhaps no other moral issue divides the American public more than abortion. In part, the controversy hinges on the question of when the spirit enters the body. If a spirit […]
[…] Save the leg? The doctor had crossed hairy arms over his scrubs. How do you deliver bad news? How do you drop barbells without cracking the floor? They can try. He’s gone upstairs. You […]