Turning
April 17, 2018[…] in the mood for testimonies about the star-spangled banner. Besides that, I was hungry. But when the sacrament was over, I stayed. I thought my motivation was guilt, but now I know it was grace.
[…] in the mood for testimonies about the star-spangled banner. Besides that, I was hungry. But when the sacrament was over, I stayed. I thought my motivation was guilt, but now I know it was grace.
[…] towns where it is even against the law to plant a poplar. They grow too tall, tangle overhead wires, have shallow roots, are subject to windfall. Mortal sins, all. Still, on long drives, my […]
[…] decision in its entirety with Sam Taylor’s essay “The Little Man Who Isn’t There” in Dialogue , 6 (Autumn-Winter, 1971). Here is but an excerpt from the decision. The Court rightly rejects the notion […]
My honeymoon with the Church lasted for five years, between 19 61 when I was converted and 1966 when I went on my mission. During that period, I had had inklings that there was […]
[…] making snuggling and singing to an infant a divine act. Figure 2: “Heavenly Parents, Heavenly Child,” 1 6″ × 20″, 2019, acrylic and ink, by Amber Eldredge, 2019 Modern Mormons have an affinity for […]
[…] Roberts, Outlines of Ecclesiastical History: A Textbook (Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon & Sons Co., 189 3), 181–83 (citing approvingly the Lutheran historian Johann Lorenz von Mosheim’s critique of early Christianity’s syncretism with […]
[…] 18.4 (Winter 1984): 65–80
Shortly after the church was organized, one of Joseph Smith’s main priorities during his lifetime was preaching to the Native Americans, who he believed to be the descendants of the Lamanites.
Dialogue 26. 3 (Fall 1993): 119–140
In fall 1993, TJ O’Brian wrote, “You are Not Alone: A Please for Understanding the Homosexual Condition.” O’Brian was a gay man and this esay addresses how church members […]
Dialogue 35.3 (Fall 2003):9a–128
I am a literary critic who has spent a professional lifetime reading, teaching, and writing about literary texts. Much of my interest in and approach to the Book of Mormon lies […]
[…] Church repudiated teachings from the Book of Mormon immediately following its publication. Thus there is a need for a reassessment of the relation between early nineteenth-century Universalism and the teachings of the Book of […]