[…] 1950s, President David O. McKay took forthright steps to move the largely domestic church into the international world. Within months after assuming his presidency, he embarked on a series of world tours, much as […]
3 September 1984 Today my youngest child went to school all day for the first time. Every mother approaches this milestone with both anticipation and dread. I reached this point once before, six years […]
[…] 1980). For the purposes of this discussion, the beehive represents all aspects of Mormon involvement with the world, cultural as well as economic. The angel, in contrast, represents Mormonism’s other-worldly heritage, the spiritual and […]
In a now canonical article in 1912, “Chaucer’s Discussion of Marriage,” George Lyman Kittredge applied the term “marriage group” to a subset among Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: the Wife of Bath (and her polemic and […]
[…] time even exhilarating, continually gratifying place as an “inside-outsider” in Zion. My first introduction to the Mormon world came in September 1960, when our family (my husband Tony, our eight-year-old son Stephen, and I) […]
[…] years missions branched into smaller cities, but the Russian village was an altogether new frontier. Bogdanovka, although it is only 100 miles or so from the large regional capital city of Samara, is a world apart.
<i>Dialogue 38.4 (Winter 2006):83–104</i><br>Thus, regardless of how one chooses to resolve the issues surrounding its origins, one must conclude that the Book of Mormon’s theological arguments should be seen as designed to be read […]
[…] This could work! *** The village consisted of slightly more than three-hundred people from all over the world. About a third were from China and another third from India. The rest were a mix […]
The New English Bible was produced to enhance modern readers’ understanding of the Bible’s content. The recommendation of the multidenominational committee that initiated the translation project in October of 1946 was “that a completely […]
[…] Latter Day Saints, Independence, Missouri. Steven Epperson: Assistant Professor of History, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, specializing in American religious history and history of Christian doctrine. Mark D. Thomas: Scriptural Studies Editor, Dialogue: A […]