[…] of twelve years to fifteen I pondered many things in my heart concerning the situation of the world of mankind the contentions and divisions the wickedness and abomina tions . . . my mind […]
[…] the study of ancient history in particular, and not the special presuppositions of a particular philosophical or theological world view, be it pro- or anti-faith. (2) This leads naturally to my second point. Wide-ranging questions […]
[…] in which the fatted calf is eaten. This is another detail with ritual resonance in the ancient world, for eating meat was a much rarer event in antiquity than it is today; often it […]
[…] notorious Hell’s Half-Acre district, where blind eyes turned to cock-fighting and bootlegging, he had been fascinated by the nature and use of power. By the time he was fifty, he had secured a string […]
[…] Mormons are largely represented as provincial, conservative, small-minded individuals who are ill-prepared to cope with the real world—by which Kushner seems to mean about six blocks of New York City. The play’s Mormonism, on […]
<i>Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967): 19–40</i><br>In this historical analysis, Mauss argues that starting in the 1850s, the church started to deny priesthood and temple blessings to anyone who had even a trace of African ancestry.
<i>Dialogue 25.4 (Winter 1992): 81–96</i><br>A history of ethnic wards and branches as the church struggled with integration vs. segregation of immigrant communities.
<i>Dialogue 31.1 (Spring 1998): 47–65</i><br>In this essay I intend to build on my earlier work on the Reorganized Church and the decade of decision it faces in the 1990s.
[…] meeting. It must have gone overtime again. That, or she and Kathy Simpson were solving some imminent world crisis. He felt an overwhelming loneliness challenged only by fatigue. He switched on his answering machine […]
[…] of sophisticated communication and transportation facilities, the result of which is to bring the rest of the world and its problems literally into our living rooms. The above trends are also having considerable impact […]