Jessie L. Embry, Author at Dialogue Journal

Grain Storage: The Balance of Power Between Priesthood Authority and Relief Society Autonomy

The developmental history of the Church shows most conspicuously, perhaps, not in purposes and theology but in details. A twentieth-century visitor to the nineteenth-century might be most struck not by the pioneer conditions as by…

Exiles for the Principle: LDS Polygamy in Canada

Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 3

Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 108–116
Embry describes the role that polygamy played in the forming of Cardston Canada, both Pre-Manifesto and Post Manifesto.

Mothers and Daughters in Polygamy

Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 3

Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 99–107
An analysis of what the individual wives’ roles are in the 19th century among plural marriages. Embry and Bradley make the argument that the daughters in a polygamous relationship pay attention to how their own mom is doing, which determines whether or not when they are older they enter into a polygamous relationship.

Burden or Pleasure? A Profile of LDS Polygamous Husbands

Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 4

Dialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 158–166
Despite what researchers have said over the years regarding for why men married plural wives, Embry argues that a significant portion of husbands married plural wives because of their religious beliefs.

Separate but Equal?: Black Brothers, Genesis Groups, or Integrated Wards?

Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 1

Dialogue 23.1 (Spring 1990): 11–36
A history of Black LDS social groups and organizations. The Genesis Group gave African Americans a better chance to connect with fellow African Americans through frequent socials. The first group was founded in Salt Lake City. Even being based in Utah, they couldn’t depend on a lot of outside support from other members or Church leaders, which became isolating for them.

Speaking for Themselves: LDS Ethnic Groups Oral History Project

Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 4

Dialogue 25.4 (Winter 1992): 99–110
An oral history project on ethnic wards and branches.

Ethnic Groups and the LDS Church

Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 4

Dialogue 25.4 (Winter 1992): 81–96
A history of ethnic wards and branches as the church struggled with integration vs. segregation of immigrant communities.

Unanswered Questions | Grant Underwood, The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism

Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 2

Joseph Smith looked forward to a millennium when, according to the 11th Article of Faith, “Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon this the American continent and Christ will reign personally.” But Smith was…

Without Purse or Scrip

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 3

[1]Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints see pro claiming the gospel to all people as an important part of the church’s responsibility. Many elements of their missionary efforts have not changed…

Fundamentalist Polygamists | Irwin Altman and Joseph Ginat, Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 3

Irwin Altman, of the University of Utah, and Joseph Ginat, of the University of Haifa, one a social-environ mental psychologist, the other an anthropologist, studied twenty-seven contemporary polygamous families in the American West. They start…

A Part of History Overlooked | Leslie G. Kelen and Eileen Hallet Stone, Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah

Articles/Essays – Volume 31, No. 3

How do non-Mormons feel about living in Utah? Missing Stories answers many such questions. These are the people’s words and not interpretation. As Helen Papanikolas explains in the introduction, “This is not a book of…

Folk Ideas of Mormon Pioneers

Articles/Essays – Volume 31, No. 3

In 1997 Mormons celebrated the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Brigham Young and the first LDS company to the Great Salt Lake Valley. During the anniversary year, they frequently discussed the experiences of the…

A Handsome Volume | Thomas E. Toone, Mahonri Young: His Life and Art

Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 2

Mormons associate Mahonri Young with his LDS sculptures: Seagull Monument and This Is the Place Monument in Salt Lake City, and the Brigham Young statue in Washington, D.C. Yet Young was internationally known for his…