[…] majesty of God adequately.” B. H. Roberts, Seventy’s Course in Theology, 5 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1907-12), 4:94. Cleon Skousen developed an imaginative variation of the moral-influence theory in which the purpose […]
[…] a warm winter. No one at Thiokol noticed that sometimes, on my breaks, I cried over the news, over the workload, over my books. What my father noticed was that no matter how early […]
[…] ocean calmed Lucy and made her feel better because it reminded her she wasn’t alone in the world, and she felt instantly connected to distant places. But for the first time since she could […]
I had never heard of fundamentalist Mormons until seeing a 60 Minutes segment about them in the late 1980s. During a western vacation, I visited Colorado City, Arizona, on January 2, 1988, and talked […]
[…] was why Bishop Keating walked in on Latham Runyon’s Gospel Doctrine class. He looked like Dr. Bad News, and the class looked up like all the relatives in the waiting room. He rubbed the […]
I first heard the tales of Hugh Nibley, the brilliant and eccentric LDS scholar whose fertile and fecund brain defended and expanded the faith of thoughtful Church members, virtually at my mother’s knee. I […]
[…] and lived the higher law.” There followed a tangent about the importance of not being of the world and the principle of the harvest and the danger of spiritual plateaus, and then suddenly he […]
<i>Dialogue 43.2 (Fall 2010): 45–63</i><br>Mormon women weren’t passive recipients of the new feminism. We helped to create it.
[…] a mother of eight escapes out the back door and shoots herself in the head. According to news reports and neighborhood gossip, the morning wasn’t out of the ordinary: the kids were fighting over […]
[…] a meticulous and scholarly fashion. Both Souls in Transition and Shield of Faith reveal some very good news about LDS youth; however, it is the BYU volume that reveals the group’s most significant challenges. […]