The First Vision Story Revived
May 3, 2018[…] a genre familiar enough to Mormon scholars. Mr. Walters’ purpose, like that of many of his pre decessors, was to discredit Joseph Smith’s account of the first vision and all that depended on it. […]
[…] a genre familiar enough to Mormon scholars. Mr. Walters’ purpose, like that of many of his pre decessors, was to discredit Joseph Smith’s account of the first vision and all that depended on it. […]
[…] turmoil, marked by violence, lawlessness, and sexual licentiousness encouraged by the official organization of the Danites in Missouri and their actions in Illinois. Wise asserts that the Mormon belief in a rapidly approaching Millennium […]
[…] Privacy Doctrine, 1981, and articles in BYU Law Review, 1978, p. 783, 1980, p. 811; and in Missouri Law Review 45: 394). For the general reader, they now offer one of the most impartial […]
Currently, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints defines the Godhead as consisting of three separate and distinct personages or Gods: Elohim, or God the Father; Jehovah, or Jesus Christ, the Son of God both…
[…] wording. Of course, a perfect restoration would be in the language of the original, but the i dea is that the JST gives the English sense of the original Greek or Hebrew texts of […]
Rebecca England is an investor who lives in Salt Lake City. She received a BA in English Literature from Brigham Young University. A cancer survivor, she values her time recreating with friends and family. […]
First, bless the burst of anger; its force will get you free. Then, bless the tears that follow; they will provide new sight. Bless your bare feet as you put them on the earth. Run.…
Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 193–200
After taking a genelogy DNA test, Houston finds some African ancestory. “Where to begin in answering all those questions? But at the most basic level, I simply liked that I was from Africa. The percentage was small but the jolt large and wondrous. In the nineteenth century, the United States had the one-drop rule about race: if you had one drop of African blood you were considered to be Black.”
Dialogue 6.2 (Summer 1972): 40–47
It isn’t easy these days to be a Momon mother of four. In the university town where I live, fertility is tolerated but not encouraged. Every time I drive to the grocery store, bumper stickers remind me that Overpopulation Begins At Home, and I am admonished to Make Love, Not Babies. At church I have the opposite problem. My youngest is almost two and if I hurry off to Primary without a girdle, somebody’s sure to look suspiciously at my flabby stomach and start imagining things. Everybody else is pregnant, why not I?
The Church of England, the heir of a nineteen hundred year Christian tradition, has fallen upon evil days. At least such is the assessment of The Reverend Nicholas Stacey, Rector of Woolwich, in a recent…