Part II of the Sunstone Classics series Eugene England was a founder of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and a professor of English at BYU before becoming Writer in Residence at Utah Valley University where he started the first Mormon Studies program. He published this excerpted article in 2002. The whole article starts on …
By D. Michael Quinn D. Michael Quinn is the award-winning author of many articles and books on Mormon history including Early Mormonism and the Magic World View (Signature, 1998) and the upcoming The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth and Corporate Power (Signature, 2016). Prologue I was recently asked1 to describe the background of the 97-page …
By Charlotte Hansen In a recent lecture at the University of Utah, Krista Tippett, host of the NPR radio show, Speaking of Faith, argued that religion needs a place in the public university. During the twentieth century, most people practiced their religions privately, she said, not imagining that intelligent public religious discussion could occur without …
