[…] its establishment many decades later as a binding requirement for good standing in the Church. A third essay recently received provides a natural and informative transition between these studies as it examines the doctrinal […]
[…] Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights convened in August, 1978, I was there to hear Sonia Johnson testify. In writing of this experience, she has stated that she felt she was carrying on the work of […]
[…] the upswing. As a corollary, DIALOGUE has taken the small step of inviting for the first time reviews of doctrinal and historical works published unofficially by various General Authorities. In so doing we in […]
[…] secular scholars do it (p. 6). Pearson dates Ezra (whom, for some unspecified reason, he credits with writing the books of Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, Ruth, and Proverbs) in the sixth century B.C. (p. […]
[…] in a June 1839 sermon as a principle which allowed a Church member, after a lifetime of service and devotion, to be “sealed up” to exaltation while yet living, a concept clearly based on […]
Nineteenth-century Latter-day Saint women showed a remarkable propensity for organizing. To engage in benevolent service, to share useful information, to fill social and spiritual needs, they met together in the humid summers of Nauvoo, […]
[…] whose purposes were quite clearly more didactic than biographical. Moreover, Mormon, as he repeatedly tells us, was writing the record of his people specifically for us, the Saints of the restoration. I know of […]
[…] handbook or article in an official magazine seems to point a direction. Only two articles on military services have been translated in German, both as part of the seminary program. “This is your choice,” […]
[…] faith and their obligations to it. I, for one, despair at the current despair. Leonard J. Arrington, writing in DIALOGUE in 1965, identified three functions of intellectuals within society and within the LDS Church. […]
[…] Jan. 1890). In the same private interview with Abraham Cannon, Joseph F. Smith detailed Isaac Trumbo’s lobbying services and expressed the First Presidency’s conviction that to antagonize these men might jeopardize Church interests through […]