[…] 2018): 167–180
In the prequel to this article, I discussed in general contours the dual nature of authority—individual and institutional—and how the modern LDS concept of priesthood differs significantly from the ancient version in that […]
Dialogue 37.1 (Spring 2004): 75–94
However, Mennonites and Latter Day Saints may be spiritual cousins. A sympathetic comparison of the origins of both movements may illuminate their past and also assist in contemporary living of […]
Dialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 82–85
Secular scholarship and L.D.S. studies of archaeology and the Book of Mormon have had a discordant dialogue for some time. The scripture asserts, for example, that the civilizations it describes […]
[…] he stood for in Nauvoo could more easily have accepted the kind of Mormonism found in Utah today. In many ways Nauvoo was less the prototype of the future than was the Mormonism of […]
[…] the latest issue of my newsletter, when my next Google search suddenly revealed a series of startling headlines: “Inexcusable Error in Church Manual Revives LDS Church’s Dark Racist History,” “Catastrophic Blunder in LDS Manual […]
[…] badly. He stayed away four full weeks, reappearing, as everyone now knows, on “that” fateful Sunday. The news of his return could not have spread any more quickly if it had been posted on […]
[…] something bad happening to me. Jack was looking like the rattled folk you see on the TV news. Had those eyes. He stood by the Nova and said, “It has me spooked is all […]
[…] be constrained by these limitations. In the Spring of 1966 we drew a proportionally stratified, multistage, r andom probability sample of one-thousand registered voters in the above counties, which contain almost eighty-four (84%) percent […]
[…] vivid description of “unrestrained and indiscriminate police violence,” which it characterized as a “police riot,” against demonstrators, news men, and bystanders at the Chicago Democratic Convention (Rights in Conflict, The Walker Report to the […]
[…] chain of causation, however, may not be so simple, but may be circular instead, since a Mormon’s politics may be conditioned or reinforced by certain Church doctrines or principles. How ever, sophisticated statistical procedures […]