There is no use discuss ing the Bible as literature (whether the King James, the New English Bible, or any other version) with anyone who doesn’t read it as literature but merely searches its […]
The word “crisis” usually signifies a crucial point or situation in the course or history of someth ing. It implies an unstable condition in a certain state of affairs in which an abrupt and […]
[…] Gordon Thomasson’s critiques of my article on Mormon neo-orthodoxy, they indicated that I must reply immediately. Assum ing the critiques would be published in the following issue, I neglected to respond because I was […]
Mormonism has been subject to rapid renovation since its found ing. The Prophet Joseph made it quite clear that God’s revelations were continual and that if things were withheld for the moment, it was […]
The canonical writings and the apocrypha have a good deal to say about “treasures in the heavens.” If we compare the “treasures” passages in a wide sampling of these writings, including those of Qumran, […]
In a recent address to a Regional Representatives Seminar, President Kimball stated— We asked last conference for all members to pray with increased sincerity for peace in all nations and especially China, and that […]
On April 9, 1852, Brigham Young rose once again to address a session of general conference. He intended to preach several discourses, he said, and as the Deseret News observed the following week, “the […]
[…] landmark organizational study, Max Weber outlined three forms of authority: traditional, charismatic, and legal. Originally charismatic un der Joseph Smith and to some extent under Brigham Young, by the late nineteenth century, leadership in […]
No branch of study, aca demic or popular, penetrates as deeply into man’s intuitive life or mirrors his contemplative self as clearly as folklore. Folklore lays bare man’s myriad fears and anxieties, while at […]
[…] they collapsed from exhaustion. Some Plains Indians, while shuffling steps to this native ritual, wore special shirts decorated with symbols to protect them from bullets. These same Indians claimed that the biblical Messiah, allegedly […]