Spring 1990
The Spring 1990 Issue begins with Jessie L. Embry’s piece examines the complex relationship between race and church membership, considering whether Black congregants should participate in separate groups or integrate fully. Mark L. Grover discusses the priesthood revelation and the implications of the São Paulo, Brazil Temple. Stan Larson follows the journey of Thomas Stuart Ferguson in exploring historical Mormon sites. Maureen Ursenbach Beecher analyzes Eliza R. Snow's poetry for insights into her personal life. Robert J. McCue reflects on Anthony Maitland Stenhouse's life as a polygamist bachelor, while Brian E. Keck offers a reappraisal of Ezekiel 37, exploring its connections to Babylonian writing. Delmont R. Oswald addresses single adults in response to President Benson's speech, while Lawrence A. Young discusses the experiences of single Mormon men. In the "Personal Voices" section, Kate Boyes and Mary Ellen MacArthur provide reflective pieces on Mormon identity and life experiences within the faith.
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.
Dialogue 23.1 (Spring 1990): 39–55
Few Brazilian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daySaints will forget 1978, the year when two events significantly changed the Church in this South American country.
Three turning points mark the early life of Eliza R. Snow: the 1826 publication of her first newspaper verse, her 1835 baptism as a convert to Mormonism, and her 1842 sealing as a plural wife…
I have no intention of practicing polygamy,
but I accept and will firmly maintain it as a
doctrine, and am in no way ashamed of it.
—Anthony Maitland Stenhouse
So wrote Anthony Maitland Stenhouse (no relation to T. B. H. Stenhouse), a Scot transplanted temporarily to the western Canadian wilderness and an ardent nineteenth-century proponent of polygamy.
During its first 158 years, Mormonism, like any other religious system, has developed its own theological and ritual structure with its own built-in defensive mechanisms. A fundamental part of this defensive infrastructure is a series…
I am a divorced father with two beautiful children. Married for eleven years, I have been divorced for ten. I continue to experience the joys and responsibilities of fatherhood, I consider myself a member in…
Single male members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints face a number of difficult issues. With my impressions of President Ezra Taft Benson’s address at the April 1988 priesthood session of general…
Hidden in drainage ditches alongside the tracks, men wait for the train. I know the men are there. I’ve seen the damp green nesting places they trample out in the thickest stands of rushes, cattails,…
When I was a restless teenager growing up Mormon in a small southern California ward, it seemed that the only topic to which our unruly Sunday school class responded was the fate of the lost…
you talk of breakaway stallions
with hooves poised to strike teeth,
years on long lean roads past Las Vegas
selling church pews down the valley.
A white-dusted woman looks up from sifting circles of
Yellow grain, and husks, and leaves.
In the clicking speech of her people she calls, Ah hello.
Dear God! Your two faces shine before me.
Dennis Clark loves poetry and poets, and he also loves to write poetry. I don’t think this can be said of everybody in the poetry business. These three chapbooks are evidence of Dennis’s development as…
Few men have had a greater impact on the cultural life of contemporary Utah than has Obert C. Tanner. Through countless philanthropic endeavors, he and his wife, Grace, have guaranteed a quality of life otherwise…
