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Sterling M. McMurrinAnti-Christian Fundamentalism: Casting the First Stone: The Hypocrisy of Religious Fundamentalism by R. A. Gilbert
Michael W. HomerNon-Traditional Christianity: Offenders for a Word: How Anti-Mormons Play Word Games to Attack the Latter-day Saints
Massimo IntrovigneDid Jesus Heal Simon’s Mother-in-law of a Fever?
W. Barnes TatumThe Sabbath Day: To Heal or Not to Heal
Daryl D. SchmidtThe Continuing Quest for the Historical Jesus
Mark D. ThomasComing of Age? The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the 1960s
Roger D. LauniusDialogue 28.4 (Winter 1995): 31–55
In many respects the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of the 1960s mirrored the general tumult, if not the details, of the larger American society.
American Christians Visit Mt. Nebo
Lee RobisonSanctified, In the Flesh
Brian EvensonThe Miracles of Jesus: Three Basic Questions for the Historian
John P. MeierJesus Christ in the New Testament: Part One: The Historical Jesus Behind the Gospels
John P. MeierJesus Christ in the New Testament: Part Two: Various Images of Jesus in the Books of the New Testament
John P. MeierThe First Christmas Eve at Home
N. Andrew Spackman“Easy to be Entreated:” Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent and Christian Communication
Grant BoswellDid Christ Pay for Our Sins?
Dennis R. PotterOne Well-Wrought Side of the Story: Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822-1887 by Scott R. Christensen
P. Jane HafenPhilosophical Christian Apology Meets “Rational” Mormon Theology
L. Rex SearsTaking Up the Cross
Keith E. NormanBring Them Unto Christ
William D. RussellEugene England: Our Brother in Christ
Robert A. ReesChristmas Card from Siple Station, Antarctica
Danielle Beazer DubraskyNo Other Way?: Rescue for the Dead: The Posthumous Salvation of Non-Christians in Early Christianity
Keith E. NormanChristian Spinning
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonThe Woman of Christlike Love
Emma Lou ThayneSunday Morning — Eight Days Before Christmas, 2001
Suzanne Evertsen LundquistThe LDS Church and Community of Christ: Clearer Differences, Closer Friends
William D. RussellDialogue 36.4 (Winter 2003): 177–192
In this paper I will briefly discuss what I see as the six major differences between the two churches during the first century of their existence, and then I will look at eight new differences that have emerged over the past forty years or so. I make no claim that either is a complete list.
Rooted in Christian Hope: The Case for Pacifism
Richard SherlockChristmas Conflict 2001
Dawn Baker BrimleyThe First Piece in the Puzzle: Walking in the Sand: A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ghana by Emmanuel Abu Kissi
Mark T. DeckerGarden Tomb
Spencer EllsworthThe water was black around our knees. Bamboo surrounded and overlooked us. It was so quiet in the mist and the dark green stalks that the sound of our legs moving was an intrusion. Water…
Carterville
Douglas ThayerI wanted to lift the glass-framed lid and hold the big German brown trout. He was smooth, beautiful, all shining gold—darker gold on top and lighter gold underneath. The gold had black, orange, and red…
Christmas Carol (Post-Christmas: 2005)
Dawn Baker BrimleyIs Joseph Smith Relevant to the Community of Christ?
Roger D. LauniusDialogue 39.4 (Winter 2006): 58–67
I spoke as a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints/Community of Christ. As a result, I had a decidedly different perspective on Joseph Smith than my co-panelists.
Grant McMurray and the Succession Crisis in the Community of Christ
William D. RussellDialogue 39.4 (Winter 2006): 67–90
Members of the Community of Christ were shocked when our president, W. Grant McMurray, announced that he had resigned on November 29, 2004 , effective immediately.
Colonizing the Frontier between Faith and Doubt: A Rascal by Nature, A Christian by Yearning: A Mormon Autobiography by Levi S. Peterson
Michael AustinDining with the Devil: A Long Spoon: Poems by R. A. Christmas
Robert A. ReesAccusation
Angela HallstromNathan hears the accusation during bishopric meeting. “Helen Sheeney is convinced,” the bishop says. “She pulled my wife aside after homemaking meeting. Once she started in, it took nearly an hour to calm her down.…
Who Brought Forth This Christmas Demon
Larry T. MenloveListen to the piece here. Tim’s wife left him with three dozen blue spruce still trussed up on the truck and better than fifty juniper, Scotch, red cedar, and Douglas on the lot. She left…
“The Grandest Principle of the Gospel”: Christian Nihilis Sanctified Activism and Eternal Progression
Jacob T. BakerModernism and Mormonism: James E. Talmage’s Jesus the Christ and Early Twentieth-Century Mormon Responses to Biblical Criticism
Clyde D. FordPracticing Divinity
Taylor G. PetreyBuildings
Tona J. HangenMay Many Phoenixes Rise
Allison PingreeA Deep Reverence in My Heart; Part of Our Family
Clayton ChristensenLooked like a Church, Sounded like a Church; How Beautiful Our Waters of Mormon
Molly BennionMove Back in a Heartbeat
Marilyn Lee BrownThe Bonds Endure; Freudian Analysis of Lehi’s Dream
Jim JohnstonTribute to a Building; Giving Church a Try
Arthur ShekNot Different from My Home
Katsu FunaiEqually Warm, Whether Empty or Full
Aja Fegert EyreNot the Building
Erin L. CrowleyAn Anchor for Me
Paula Kelly CaryotakisMatzoh for Sacrament
Steve RowleyNarnia’s Aslan, Earth’s Darwin, and Heaven’s God
Wesley J. WildmanDivine Darwinism, Comprehensible Christianity, and the Atheist’s Wager: Richard Rorty on Mormonism—an Interview with Mary V. Rorty and Patricia Rorty
Stephen T. Cranney“All Find What They Truly Seek”: C.S. Lewis and the ‘Virtuous Unbeliever’
Blair Dee HodgesThe Great Vigil of Easter
Andrew Ashcroft“There Is Always a Struggle”: An Interview with Chieko N. Okazaki
Chieko N. OkazakiAbundant Events or Narrative Abundance: Robert Orsi and the Academic Study of Mormonism
Stephen TaysomAn Imperfect Brightness of Hope
(author)Why the True Church Cannot Be Perfect
Roger TerryBones Heal Faster: Spousal Abuse in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Terence L. DayReview: Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey, The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
John G. TurnerCommunicating Jesus: The Encoding and Decoding Practices of Re-Presenting Jesus for LDS (Mormon) Audiences at a BYU Art Museum
David W. Scott“The Highest Class of Adulterers and Whoremongers”: Plural Marriage, the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite), and the Construction of Memory
Christopher James BlytheDialogue 46.2 (Spring 2016): 1–39
Blythe shows the denial among Culterites followers that the founder was involved in plural marriage.
Review: Adam S. Miller. Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology
(author)Woman: Joint Heiress With Christ
Liz HammondReview: Adam S. Miller. Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology
Robert A. ReesReview: Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith. Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of the Presiding Patriarch H. Michael Marquardt, ed. Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints H. Michael Marquardt, ed. Later Patriarchal Blessi
Susanna MorrillReview: Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens. The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
Adam S. MillerTwo-Dog Dose
Steven L. PeckJarring bang. Wheels leap up, rattling the heavy load of black piping destined for the oilrig. The truck rolls on. Oblivious to what it left behind. On the macadam, a coyote. From its sacrum back…
Review: Stephen H. Webb. Mormon Christianity: What Other Christians Can Learn from the Latter-day Saints
John W. MoreheadJesus Enough
Levi S. Peterson1886 When Darby turned fifteen, his mother Cora said if he didn’t make up his mind to accept Jesus pretty soon, it would be too late. She said he had to make the choice either…