[…] this essay, I shall begin by describing what we can learn about our Mother in Heaven from the scriptures. I then will draw from those descriptions some (very modest) suggestions for how we might […]
<i>Dialogue 51.1 (Spring 2018): 167–180</i><br>In the prequel to this article, I discussed in general contours the dual nature of authority—individual and institutional—and how the modern LDS concept of priesthood differs significantly from the ancient […]
[…] for more than five seconds he just goes crazy. You’d think it was the end of the world.” “It sounds like it,” Pancha said, trying for something neutral. Pancha hadn’t been alone with her […]
[…] rolling over his pickup trying to make it home through a snowstorm, and she hadn’t noticed the world standing in line to give her a hand up. She hadn’t missed a day’s work ’til […]
[…] ten are devoted to polygamy, while three chapters of the eleven are headed “A Kingdom of This World” and talk about government and the military, land business, industry, and finance. Another chapter discusses the […]
The career of Bernard DeVoto, the foremost writer and one of the greatest intellectual forces whom Utah has produced in this country, was conspicuously marked by achievements and honors. He wrote five novels, […]
[…] and hell as found in most other Christian churches. The Levites’ ideal is to avoid the outside world, but they desire to be well informed about its affairs. Many “worldly” recreational activities are considered […]
[…] great wave of Irish emigrants to America in the spring of 1832. While cholera swept the Old World, millennialists in America watched for harbingers of the awaited second advent of Jesus Christ. Cholera fit […]
The sensibility described by Amy Lowell—that there is something odd about women who write serious poetry—is still given substance today by the endangered state of the species. Even I will not waste time […]
Among the things Mormon brought into the spotlight by the Sonia Johnson affair, perhaps the least well understood was the LDS notion of “excommunication.” To non-Mormons the process seemed, in Phil Donahue’s widely heard […]