Dynette Reynolds

DYNETTE IVIE REYNOLDS is the former assistant editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. She is currently a technical writer and editor living in Ogden, Utah, with her husband—a professor of sociology at Weber State University—and their four children.

Youth, Sex, and Coercion: The Neglect of Sexual Abuse Factors in LDS Data and Policy on Premarital Sex

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 2

LDS church standards require that sexual relations be confined to marriage. While the world in general seems to have grown more tolerant of premarital sex, church standards have remained stringent. Sermons, articles, and auxiliary lessons…

Coming Out of the Evolution Closet

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 4

Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 143–145
Sometimes, I seem to be the only person in the entire church who
knows that it’s okay to believe in evolution and still be a faithful, believing Mormon.