[…] Z (“Zion”): 190 pages of what Mormons are supposed to believe, know, and do. Arguably, in creed -free and catechism–free Mormonism, the appearance of this concise compendium represents a new development. Its closest parallels […]
<i>Dialogue 39.4 (Winter 2006): 58–67</i><br> I spoke as a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints/Community of Christ. As a result, I had a decidedly different perspective on Joseph Smith […]
[…] pagans to the Mormon aversion to wine in the Lord’s supper, to Book of Mormon preaching on human agency, to our near–compulsive record–keeping, we as a people worry about the influence and implication of […]
[…] so through the story of my own research and conclusions about the war over the past half -century—one–third of the period since President James Buchanan and Governor Brigham Young came into armed conflict during […]
[…] goal. Still, Church progressives emphasized the need to make Zion present through social justice advocacy and “participatory human development projects” in all the world. Progressives, then, spiritualized the millennialist Zion while still affirming a […]
[…] Mormon History: An Update.” The introduction said the article was a repeat of a survey conducted twenty -four years earlier and reported in Dialogue in the spring of 1969. I recalled the article, had […]
[…] to be chased. Finally someone answered. The door had been mine, but the sound of an actual human voice startled me into silence. Ben, of course, was quick to come to the rescue. Before […]
[…] believe that many (not all, but many) norms reflect essential characteristics of the way the majority of human beings has historically related and will continue to relate to one another. And I further believe […]
[…] been an initiate for only a short time into the secret order of those who know that human beings create offspring in the manner of cattle, horses, and hogs. It was one thing to […]
[…] in the summer of 2004 when I confronted a stack of books on the emergence of second -wave feminism. I relived my own life as I read accounts of feminist awakenings in Chapel Hill, […]