[…] dozen libel suits. Another impression is of a lively journal fighting to stay alive in a competitive market by vigorously tackling a variety of controversial issues. By comparison, today’s Salt Lake Tribune — and […]
[…] he believed the prohibition movement would hurt the Church by bringing further charges of church influence in politics. John Henry Smith opposed Prohibition but considered Smoot’s objections somewhat hypocritical because the Apostle-Senator “had no […]
[…] is changing and it is changing in a major way. On 9 December 1987 an official Church news release described the belief in the superiority of one race or color over another as “abhorrent […]
[…] free but intensely materialistic world—ironically not the materialism that Marxism promised but failed to create—but the free market economy where materialism actually holds sway. Only then will we discover if the coming generations of […]
[…] to Litchfield in the middle of winter, take off his shoes, and walk through the town during market-day crying out, “Woe to the bloody city of Litchfield! Woe to the bloody city of Litchfield!” […]
<i>Dialogue 31.1 (Spring 1998): 47–65</i><br>In this essay I intend to build on my earlier work on the Reorganized Church and the decade of decision it faces in the 1990s.
[…] his own religious sensitivities. At first, he contained his resentment of Joseph’s monopoly of the real estate market in Nauvoo, though he came to regard the prophet’s preoccupation with temporal affairs as unfitting for […]
Since mid-century, dramatic changes in family demographics have characterized patterns of parenthood and sexual partnerships in America. As age at marriage has increased, the age at initiation of sexual inter course has decreased so […]
[…] 1967), 36. For Jesus’ reinterpretation or rejection of purity codes, see Marcus J. Borg, Conflict, Holiness, and Politics in the Teaching of Jesus (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1984), 73-144, 96-99; John P. Meier, […]
[…] “The War on Terrorism.” While I share America’s moral outrage over the barbaric attacks on our nation and its people, I have also felt uneasy about the quick polarizing rhetoric, the boasting of our […]