[…] to try and convey aspects of Charles Taylor’s work that I find tremendously helpful in working through the challenges that all of us confront and that give rise to conferences like this one. Let […]
This essay is an experiment of sorts. For some time, Mormon Studies has attempted to move beyond the narrow confines of its past, with its focus on institutional histories and biographies of important people […]
[…] It might be best to illustrate my thesis by explaining the somewhat parallel circumstances I encountered during World War II at London headquarters of the Air Force Public Relations Office. On the ground floor […]
In one of his fascinating scientific survey books, this time dealing with the latest discoveries about the brain, Nigel Calder notes, “Two of the most self-evident characteristics of the conscious mind are that 1) […]
[…] Grant Family Correspondence, LDS Church Archives. Another wife complained that the frequently writing Rachel monopolized all the news, ibid. HJG to Florence , 8 June 1905, LC 39:832; RRG, Thirteenth Ward Relief Society Minutes, […]
[…] thirty years later. The Iron Curtain did not descend upon East Germany immediately at the end of World War II. The political isolation that would eventually be fall its citizens was not obvious to […]
This essay addresses the remarkable perseverance of Mormon polygamy.I argue that its survival is chiefly explained by the emphasis it was given in the nineteenth-century Church. The cardinal significance early leaders granted plurality in […]
[…] opportunities to live by light) are redeemed, resurrected and exalted into kingdoms of glory in a post-mortal world. In this view of mortal life as a testing ground replete with uncertainty and ambiguity, LGBTQ […]
The emerging field of whiteness studies in the US asks some provocative questions: How do outsiders lay claim to citizenship? How do minorities shed their image as un-American? How do they, in other […]
[…] campuses, on the pages of ecumenical youth journals, in fraternities of younger ministers, and in the theological world generally. John T. Elson, writing in 1965 in Life, pointed out that Bonhoeffer’s books were gaining […]