Mormon history has always been a hot topic. From the earliest days of Church history over a century and a half ago, vastly divergent accounts of the origins and development of the Church of […]
[…] and building up. In the first portion of our lives we are appropriately concerned with the external world: forming an ego separate from physical things, parents, and gender identification by rejecting one for another. […]
In 1989, the Primary Association released a new songbook for Mormondom’s children, its first since 1969. Evaluating it for a professional hymnody publication, one reviewer commented: “This handsome volume’s 8V2 x 11” pages exude […]
[…] through those first pitiful drafts of fiction at the School of Spencer. Unknowingly he opened a new world for me when others had closed down. To begin, I notice that Sean Ziebarth (SZ) categorized […]
[…] certain corrupt ideas. It didn’t have to be this way, of course. One can easily imagine a world where Mormonism refuses to recognize the authority of other churches but nevertheless maintains that truth can […]
<i>Dialogue 54.3 (Fall 2021): 1–40</i><br> The debate about Joseph Smith’s translations have primarily assumed that the translation was commensurable and focuses upon theories of authorial involvement of Joseph Smith.
[…] have proved to be so useful that some historians now concede that a review of the contemporary fiction is a fruitful, if not an indispensable, preliminary to the search for historical truth in any period.
[…] often wish that more of our sisters could have the opportunity of doing missionary work in the world but I suppose their work, which is great, is nearer home. I am called to leave […]
The flaws of Mormon fiction are many. But so are the possibilities.
<i>Dialogue 24.1 (Spring 1991): 86–98</i><br> In preparation for the Independence Temple that was dedicated in 1994, an RLDS member shares ideas about temples in general.