[…] 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, […]
[…] conversation with Emmylou Coronado, a shy funda mentalist girl who designs a home for her polygamous future online: “I did it on the Internet, according to the Principle” (325). Krakauer pays particular attention to […]
[…] to regulate marriage and define marriage as only the union between one man and one woman, in order to outlaw the Mormon practice of polygamy. Today, a century later, an effort to amend the […]
[…] Pratt and Rulon S. Wells were sent to open missionary work in Argentina. They arrived on December 6, 1925; but by April 1926, missionaries had moved their efforts from the small German group to […]
[…] all this fantasizing about whitebread movie stars. I don’t think God really wants us to lie in order to make people think we’re “normal,” but Mormon culture sure expects us to. It’s not like […]