[…] Didier described the “gospel culture” as a kind of universal that held Latter-day Saints together throughout the world. He defined it as “a vast amalgam of all the positive aspects of our cultures, histories, […]
[…] urgency of writing contemporary history, Schlesinger made several points especially worthy of consideration here: (1) As the world changes more rapidly in modern times than ever before, what we perceive as the “past” is […]
[…] of that generation of Americans thought that the United States had a moral obligation to set the world right. They threw themselves, therefore, headlong into the turmoil and tragedy of world politics, advocating policies […]
[…] G. Romney reminds us in a recent article entitled “The Price of Peace” that peace in the world can only be attained after every one has gained “spiritual peace”; until then every effort is […]
[…] have no hesitancy in saying that I believe this is one of the greatest crimes in the world today” (317-18). Smith’s successor, Heber J. Grant, presided over the Church during Utah’s depression years, which […]
[…] published in Dialogue. I did not know what to expect when it made its way into the world, but it ended up being a widely discussed piece and has been accessed tens of thousands […]
[…] Elden became assured of his position as the rightful man called to lead God’s people through the world’s end. According to accounts of this event from the group he founded, the personage charged Elden […]
Dialogue 44.3 (Fall 2014):53–101
Initially, I intended only one article on the usage of archaic pronouns and the implications of certain irregularities. But as I delved deeper into the implications, particularly what the erratic usage […]
[…] — the one denoting strictly an ecclesiastical body, the other a political organization intended to prepare the world for a literal, political government of Christ during the Millennium — originated with Joseph Smith, who […]
Over a score of years ago a committee of English Protestant scholars planned a major Bible translation, conceived in concern for their age of apathy and dedicated to the proposition that contemporary language was […]