[…] Smith’s desire to build an international Mormon community. However, it took 143 years after Kimball’s British mission for Mormon missionaries to start preaching in Haiti. The LDS Church’s policies on race were the main […]
[…] on their life journeys. Some individuals distrusted him, couldn’t reconcile their approaches to religion with his pleas for dialogue and his challenging questions. In the preface and introduction to Stretching the Heavens, Givens briefly […]
by Richard Sherlock As a pacifist for my entire adult life, I find the Dialogue call for papers too inviting to ignore. During the Vietnam War thirty-five years ago, I came to grips with […]
[…] in terms of fraud may result from a cultural misunderstanding between modern researchers and their nineteenth-century subjects. For instance, Dan Vogel noted that Justice Neeley, who oversaw the 1826 case, was interested in allegedly […]
[…] of another bible, one that was recorded by Israelite-American prophets and apostles, then buried in the ground for hundreds of years, and finally translated “by the gift and power of God” (Book of Mormon […]
[…] scholarship on speciific themes, explring a topic indepth and to consider how Dialogue has been a forum for these important issues since its founding. We’ll also bring you up to date on these topics […]
[…] poetry in Book X of Plato’s Republic with a flippant “if . . . poetry can show any reason for her existence in a well-governed state, we would gladly admit her,” Western poets have largely been […]
[…] celestial siblings who would one day emigrate to New Zion. He commanded them to prepare the world for their siblings’ arrival (3). The first ship to arrive, in the year 2806, brought green-skinned creatures […]
For me, as a Native American member of the Church, I approach the hero worship of Columbus perhaps more critically and apprehensively than the average member would. I was taught that he was […]
[…] stood before the nation and apologised to Indigenous Australians, people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, for the so-called “Stolen Generations.” These infamous eugenicist policies of forced removal and institutionalisation, in existence from […]