[…] D. Taylor, an assistant to the Twelve Apostles, said that “in his judgment Benson was the laughing stock of Salt Lake” for his Birch activism. Someone even burned a Nazi swastika in the lawn of […]
America is currently in the midst of state-by-state political activism and judicial appeals to prevent the legalization of same-sex marriage. In 1996 the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated one example of the related effort to […]
[…] and his father’s endorsement of the society thus became public. Newspapers across the country reported the story, and headlines such as “Ezra Benson’s Son Takes Birch Society Post,” and “Benson Birch Tie Disturbs Utahans” heightened […]
<i>Dialogue 57:4 (Winter 2024) 33-66 </i><br> Over the past decade, a growing and exciting body of scholarship in Mormon studies has applied critical theory to Mormon history, specifically queer and race critical theory.
[…] Manifesto that officially ended plural marriage, plural marriages were still happening in the church between the First and Second Manifestos. Despite church leaders arguring that no plural marriages were happening, there is evidence to […]
[…] interests in response to the New Deal. Christian free enterprise, a blending of Christianity and libertarian free market advocacy, developed through the twentieth century. The ideals of self-sufficiency, lack of governmental intervention in the […]
[…] area. U.S. News and World Report puts it this way: “And while it has long dominated Utah politics, its presence is increasingly felt in other Western states and in Washington, D.C.” The Nation uses […]
<i>Dialogue 31.2 (Summer 1998): 1–68</i><br>Quinn shares what Mormon Fundamentalists believe. some stereotypes about them, and identfies the different groups.
For Ernest Leroy Wilkinson, successful Washington, D.C., lawyer and seventh president of Brigham Young University, campaign politics was a game he could never master. From his rowdy youth in Ogden, Utah’s notorious Hell’s Half-Acre […]
[…] not the first prediction from Rodney Stark that has proved pleasing to the LDS leadership. Yet, for today’s LDS members in Europe, the predicted “great days of gathering,” or, in President Hinckley’s terms, “second […]