[…] ivory tower isolationism and with Afghanistanism (the writing of strong, confident editorial solutions to problems half a world away, while hewing a safely vague line on local issues). These charges had some basis in […]
[…] possibly that we could get in touch with our deceased loved ones now residing in the spirit world. Moody himself started mentioning contacts with the dead through the ancient technique of scrying in a […]
<i>Dialogue 50.2 (Summer 2017):55–88</i><br>Maintaining a conviction of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon is no easy task in the era of DNA studies, archaeological excavations, and aggressive attacks by evangelical Protestants. Latter-day Saints […]
<i>Dialogue 36.1 (2003): 89–108</i><br> A claim is frequently made that science and religion are not incompatible. The contention is that science and religion can be made to co-exist by compartmentalization, that is, by carefully […]
<i>Dialogue 53.3 (Fall 2021): 1–76</i><br> Given the inadequate tools to police racial boundaries, LDS Church leaders like Joseph Fielding Smith struggled to define precisely where Black and light-skinned Latter-day Saints fit into the Church’s […]
[…] at the School of the Prophets in Provo voiced the Church’s stand against the new revision: “the world does not want this . . . they are satisfied with the King James translation”; “The […]
<i>Dialogue 1.4 (Spring 1966): 15–42</i><br> Not very long after the death of Sidney Rigdon, the influential preacher and compatriate to Joseph Smith in the first years of the Church, his son, John Wickliffe Rigdon, […]
General History Allen, Edward J. Second United Order Among the Mormons. New York: AMS Press, 1967. $12.50 Reprint of 1936 edition. Bennett, John C. The History of the Saints: Or an Expose of Joe […]
<i>Dialogue 52.2 (Spring 2019):1–58</i>Attributing the Book of Mormon’s origin to supernatural forces has worked well for Joseph Smith’s believers, then as well as now, but not so well for critics who seem certain natural […]
[…] with relief. His disclaimer read, in part, “I do most earnestly hope that the Saints throughout the world will reject every unsound doctrine which they may discover in the ‘Seer’ or in any of […]