<i>Dialogue 23.1 (Spring 1990): 11–36</i><br>A history of Black LDS social groups and organizations. The Genesis Group gave African Americans a better chance to connect with fellow African Americans through frequent socials. The first group […]
[…] scope to include Jews and non-Jews, empowering the fledgling movement to grow gradually into one of the world’s greatest religions. Jesus left no writings behind, and the information provided about him in the Gospels […]
[…] by natural law; (2) is explanatory by reference to natural law; (3) is testable against the empirical world; (4) reaches conclusions that are tentative; and (5) is falsifiable. How does creationism, new or old, […]
[…] willingness based on the perceived need to identify, monitor, and punish “enemies.” After the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, I was troubled by the talk about retribution and retaliation and […]
<i>Dialogue 39.1 (Spring 2006): 1–18</i><br>Perhaps no other moral issue divides the American public more than abortion. In part, the controversy hinges on the question of when the spirit enters the body. If a spirit […]
[…] I take it that men and women will, in these kingdoms, be just what the so-called Christian world expects us all to be—neither man nor woman, merely immortal beings having received the resurrection Joseph […]
[…] the beautiful whole. Since that cosmic order manifested itself in not only the physical but the social world, ethics meant understanding how to fit in with one’s community and family. In Aristotle, for example, […]
[…] to all Latter-day Saint self-perceptions and to the images which they have attempted to present to the world. Of all these pasts, the most accessible to writers are those that are most recent. The […]
[…] Utah actresses. Despite these entries, Hollywood continued to be fascinated by the “Mormon Question” or polygamy. Post World War I movies repeatedly emphasized the lurid and sensational. In Riders of the Purple Sage and […]
[…] most effective nineteenth century Mormon missionary tract. Before 1900 the Utah Church published twenty- four editions in English as well as editions in Danish, Dutch, French, German, Icelandic, Spanish and Swedish. “Oliver Cowdery Letterbook” […]