[…] of September 11, 2001 are a spectacular reminder that the struggle between religion and politics is a live and well in the twenty-first century. Eugene England’s life, which ended just weeks before those attacks, […]
[…] story: “I chase away my mother’s blue beasts, / concoct a strong spell to keep her from breaking / out of my childhood” (8). In “Ophelia, amphibian,” she reimagines Ophelia’s death as a metamorphosis, […]
My father has appeared—not in a dre am— and shown me where to haul the plates off to, a harder task now that I had the records of Mormon whole and Ether shortened up […]
[…] (Summer 1995):163–180
FOR TRADITION-MINDED MEMBERS of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints the Book of Mormon’s historicity is a given: Book of Mormon events actually occurred and its ancient participants existed in ancient history
[…] noteworthy because, instead of laying out the original historical meaning of Isaiah, it reapplies the text to the time of Joseph Smith and to the course of Jewish and Christian history up to his time.
Dialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 138–154
Engl and shares his reasons for why Joseph Smith introduced polygamy and then removed it as one of the commandments. England argues that polygamy was a faith testing experience […]
In the Book of Mormon, when Ammon is preaching to King Lamoni and his household, we meet a believing Lamanitish servant named Abish, who had “been converted unto the Lord for many years, on […]
[…] (like “husband”) is a role that is automatically created by marriage. Even more significant in the good news department were the evident, serious, concentrated efforts of the men who spoke to use inclusive language […]
[…] the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1902), 4:607 “Minutes of the Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Society,” Nauvoo Relief Society […]
[…] eternal intelligence was organized into ‘intelligences’ . . .” thus denying the eternal individuality of man (Abrah am 3:18, 19) and there by denying his moral responsibility. It is only in the realm of […]