My Fifty Years in Journalism
April 26, 2018[…] died away when I found myself reading proof for the Deseret News. A few months later the world of letters opened one of its tiny corridors and allowed me to enter as a cub […]
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“To Maintain Harmony”: Adjusting to External and Internal Stress, 1890-1930
April 19, 2018[…] any traditional society under the stress of acculturation, attempting the task of, in Peter Berger’s phrase, “ world maintenance” while trying to define a new twentieth-century Mormonism within an increasingly pluralistic society. Under these […]
The Mormon Church and the Spanish-American War: An End to Selective Pacifism
April 18, 2018[…] of the American West has been overshadowed by its profound effect upon the American nation as a world power. A little-known sidelight to the war is the influence that it exerted upon the Mormons. […]
Science: A Part of or Apart from Mormonism?
April 17, 2018[…] A million rolls of microfilm stored in Granite Mountain vaults pre serve and centralize much of the world’s genealogical information. Computers minimize work for membership and financial clerks while providing better reports for bishops. […]
Brave New Bureaucracy
April 17, 2018Huxley’s Brave New World, Orwell’s 1984, and Vonnegut’s Player Piano all envision a world where the system—big bureaucracy, big government, corporations, changing technology, or a mix of these—achieves total, albeit benign, control. The individual […]
Scientific Foundations of Mormon Theology
April 16, 2018[…] relativity, quantum theory is at least as funda mental and has far more applications in the “real” world. Quantum theory essentially tells us that our whole notion of the universe as a collection of […]
Why Nephi Killed Laban: Reflections on the Truth of the Book of Mormon
April 14, 2018[…] a shy Oriental, playing his delicate, two-stringed instrument with its drum-like sounding box. Though they divided the world in thirds by their geographical and cultural differences, they became absolutely united in one of the […]
Archive of the Covenant: Reflections on Mormon Interactions with State and Body
March 23, 2021<i>Dialogue 53.4 (Winter 2020): 79–107</i><br> In the logic of Mormon theology, an internal lack of faith is in part a result of the mismanagement of my mortal embodiment. Part of the reason that the […]
Empirical Witnesses of the Gold Plates
July 17, 2019<i>Dialogue 52.2 (Summer 2019): 59–84</i><br>Due to the fact that visiting with angels isn’t part of the normal human experience, it makes it hard for historians to prove that it happened through an academic investigation. […]
Toward a History of Ancient America
May 3, 2018<i>Dialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 65–68</i><br>If there is no history of ancient Antarctica, there is a valid reason for it. Stone Age man penetrated every continent except Antarctica, and until modern times, Antarctica was unexplored