Divine Reason
April 3, 2018[…] understanding” (v. 24). It is reasonable to assume that Joseph Smith’s language was heavily influenced by the English of the King James Version, so we can expect that by speaking “after the manner of […]
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Editing William Clayton and the Politics of Mormon History
April 3, 2018[…] his Manchester Mormons: The Journal of William Clayton, 1840-1842 (Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1974). Deseret Evening News, 9 Dec. 1879. See Allen’s testimony in Ehat v. Tanner, Brief of Appellee to 10th Circuit, […]
After the (Second) Fall: A Personal Journey toward Ethnic Mormonism
April 2, 2018[…] often considered by Mormons to be a moving account of orthodox (Hasidic to be exact) Jewish boys breaking from their religion and tradition in order to pursue a powerful, inner identity. But these books […]
Defending Jose
April 1, 2018[…] his driver’s license while the other started questioning him. “Did you speak to José in Spanish or English?” “English.” There wasn’t an officer in the bureau who would admit that the Hispanic he’d picked […]
If I Hate My Mother, Can I Love the Heavenly Mother?
March 31, 2018[…] Christian salvation. A God who puts aside his glory to take upon himself the sins of the world is a very powerful idea to me. It has been the only way out of some […]
The Use and Abuse of Anti-Semitism in the Scriptures
March 29, 2018[…] extermination for millennia, Jews are understandably suspicious of any attempt to convert them. This should not be news to Mormons, whose notorious missionary zeal raised stringent opposition to the construction of the BYU Jerusalem […]
Social Forces that Imperil the Family
March 29, 2018[…] may be better off with a single parent than in a conflictual relationship. Here there is good news. After rising for several decades, the national divorce rate has reversed and is now declining. The […]
“In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See”: Personal Reflections on Homosexuality among the Mormons at the Beginning of a New Millennium
March 29, 2018[…] (1905-06): 712–13; reprinted in Defense of the Faith and the Saints, Vol. 1 (Salt Lake City, Deseret News, 1907–1912), 310. Seamus Heaney, Poems: 1965–1975 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966), 40, 49. “Solus,” […]
History, Memory and Imagination in Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen’s Kingdom Come
March 28, 2018Many years ago Virginia Sorensen wrote me a prophetic letter. She had just read my article, “Through Immigrant Eyes: Utah History at the Grass Roots.” She sounded breathless: “For years and years/’ she wrote, […]
A Good Sign
March 27, 2018[…] or something. The truth was I had my second thoughts. I even tried to break the bad news. “Bobbie,” I said real gentle. “Sometimes these things don’t go like they make you think.” But […]