I hope I’m not extending the metaphor too far, but it seems apparent the field is less white and more colorful as the church moves into the twenty first century. Most church members are […]
[…] out of it.” The first wife further explained: “that some of our people enter into that sacred order without due reflection or preparation and before the Lord has actually revealed it to them; and […]
[…] simply the profound experience of those who seek God. The man who blots out internal awareness in order to maintain to himself and to others the appearance of absolute certainty, who refuses to examine […]
A few years ago while visiting a used bookstore in the Old City (Gamla Stan) section of Stockholm, I asked the proprietor whether he had any materials about Mormons. He brought out a small […]
[…] agency, which is “given” because for some unexplained reason an omnipotent God “has” to give it in order to have beings who “freely” love him. Many Mormon thinkers have used these approaches, but the […]
For more than fifty years, the conflict between Palestinian Arab nationalism and Jewish Zionism has been one of the most protracted and seemingly irreconcilable conflicts in the world. Most people have difficulties discussing this […]
Brady Udall has given the same sort of message to readers of his fiction. In an interview with the journal Irreantum, Udall said, “I don’t want to teach readers a lesson of any kind. […]
[…] through a story of Bruce Jorgenson’s in which the sections had been pasted up in the wrong order. The story line was wrong, but it was such a lyrical, lofty piece that it still […]
<i>Dialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128</i><br>DID JOSEPH SMITH WRITE the Book of Mormon? To this over-familiar question the orthodox Latter-day Saint answer is a resounding “No” because the official belief is that a series of men […]
[…] ghost. The heavenly visions and messages of angels, etc., contained in Mormon books, were after-thoughts, revised to order. The significance of the phrase “that bleeding ghost” will be discussed later. Earlier we said that, […]