[…] receive guidance from God, step by step, line by line. Mormonism started out as a “restorationist” church —intending to restore the realities of the Old and New Testaments to nineteenth-century America. It arrived at […]
[…] his dramatization of the conflicting claims of institutional loyalty and individual conscience. The real-life Joan of Arc —convicted of heresy and burned at the stake in 1431, canonized in 1920—had long stimulated the fancy of […]
[…] of demographic clusters may predict that if, for instance, you’re anti-abortion, you’ll probably be anti-gun control, too —provided you live in the United States. In another country, this association may not exist, and some […]
[…] to Ezra Taft Benson as an opponent of Communism, enabling this strong-willed apostle to propagate his ultra-right-wing views among Church members —views that included an endorsement of the John Birch Society, founded by candy […]
Orientation: A Visit to Gilgal Garden Seven and a half blocks east and five blocks south of the Salt Lake Temple, the 0,0 of the city’s cardinally aligned grid, an inconspicuous gate on the […]
[…] of temples. But what are we to make of Joseph Smith’s choice of comparisons? The mental image —turning a key rather than laboriously cutting out the lock—would have been available to any curious listener […]
The water was black around our knees. Bamboo surrounded and overlooked us. It was so quiet in the mist and the dark green stalks that the sound of our legs moving was an intrusion. […]
Those of us who study material culture frequently use “rootedness,” which is the quality of an object or a structure when it is fixed in association with a geographical place. For example, a group […]
[…] The History Department at Stanford allowed us to use a portion of Wes’s office as our base —no rent, no utilities to pay. Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought was the result. A lot has […]
[…] might even be Gene’s fault. What if I had not experienced the exhilarating motivation of Gene’s gentle but demanding questions in class? What if I had not found the depth and energy of Gene’s […]