[…] Warner Sallman’s painting was removed from the list of acceptable ward art. While individual Mormons could still buy reproductions of Sallman’s art for their homes, prints of Parson’s paintings were placed in the public […]
Dialogue 40.1 (Spring 2007): 83–136Watson explains how the secret marriage of Louis J. Barlow to a 15-year-old girl caused a major rift among fundamentalists. Today’s fundamentalist members are still experiencing the effects of that marriage.
[…] likeness of George Washington with a penetrating glare contrasting Cliven’s prayer-closed eyes. During the 2014 and 201 6 Bundy standoffs, antigovernment militia and protestors ensured that they came armed with guns, ammunition, and pocket […]
[…] are alike unto God,’ including ‘black and white, bond and free, male and female’ (2 Nephi 2 6:33).” It goes on to note that “during Joseph Smith’s lifetime, a few black male members of […]
[…] It is high time to say we’re sorry.” There are more recent examples as well. In 201 6, the Presbyterian Church in America voted to repent for its racist actions during the civil rights […]
Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 29–44Smith considers “why would any self-aware Black person find Mormonism the least bit appealing given its ignoble history of racial exclusion and marginalization?”
Dialogue 18.1 (Spring 1985): 9–105
Quinn shares that even with the Manifes to that officially ended plural marriage, plural marriages were still happening in the church between the First and Second Manifestos. Despite church […]
[…] 21 Although Petersen criticized young women for tempting their male counterparts, he also faulted their parents for buying them skimpy clothing and permitting them to date early. Instructing the women in attendance that “the […]
[…] out of something Latter-day Saints call “intelligence,” which one scripture defines as “light and truth” (D&C 93:3 6) and one Church authority calls “spirit element,”2 but which might be thought of as some eternal […]
[…] these young women and their church will never be the same. Announcement and Response On Saturday, October 6, 2012, President Thomas S. Monson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made the […]