The Ward Teacher
April 18, 2018[…] from one brother to the other. “Well, brethren,” he would say, “I didn’t see you at meeting today.” Each time there was a pause while Ralph Meeker shifted his weight on the tilted chair. […]
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Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo
April 18, 2018[…] as the Shakers, the group established a community a few miles from Smith’s birthplace in Vermont (Arrington, Fox, and May 1976, 20). Mother Ann Lee’s celibate society was the first communitarian organization of its […]
Of Truth and Passion: Mormonism and Existential Thought
April 14, 2018[…] responsibility for choice and resist the temptation to abandon oneself to the depersonalization of the mass. To live authentically we must accept our own possibilities and our own uniquely differentiated futures. In addition, authentic […]
Self-Blame and the Manifesto
April 13, 2018<i>Dialogue 24.3 (Fall 1991): 43–57</i><br> Before the Manifesto was first read in conference, members and church leaders fully believed in plural marriage as being a commandment from God. Once the Manifesto was read, over […]
Street Symphony
April 12, 2018[…] don’t need you to tell me what I should be doing.” But when he doesn’t call, I am not really surprised. For Mother’s Day I fix Mom dinner and give her a present—a box […]
Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told: Popular Literature as Scripture in Antebellum America
April 4, 2018[…] Wood, Joseph Smith Begins His Work: The Book of Mormon 1830 First Edition (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1963), 397. Beulah Stauffer Hostetler, American Mennonites and Protestant Movements (Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, 1987). See […]
The Woman of Worth: Impressions of Proverbs 31:10-31
April 3, 2018I am neither a scholar of the Hebrew Bible nor a theologian, yet very occasionally some unsuspecting soul asks me to preach or speak about the Bible. In 1994 I substituted one Sunday for […]
Researching Mormonism: General Conference as Artifactual Gold Mine
April 2, 2018[…] are sent to all stake presidents and bishops. Brief reports are also published in the weekly Church News which is sent to thousands of subscribers worldwide. Finally, video tapes of conference are sent to […]
Seeing the Stranger as Enemy: Coming Out
April 2, 2018It’s not easy to motivate two thousand people, about evenly divided among high school students, young parents, and older citizens, to march a mile up a steep hill to listen to speakers on an […]
After the (Second) Fall: A Personal Journey toward Ethnic Mormonism
April 2, 2018[…] in fact emerge out of the ashes of the old. I would like to think that I am a phoenix. But the operative word here is “new.” In some ways the past three years […]