Volume 18, No. 2
Summer 1985
Contents
Articles/Essays
An RLDS Reformation? Construing the Task of RLDS Theology
Paul Shupe and Larry W. ConradDialogue 18.2 (Summer 1985): 92–113
During the last twenty-five years, Reorganized Latter Day Saints have struggled to discover what it means to be the body of Christ in the modern world.
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Crying Change in a Permanent World: Contemporary Mormon Women on Motherhood
Linda P. WilcoxDialogue 18.2 (Summer 1985): 116–127
Women in the Mormon Church are encouraged toward traditional roles and attitudes that discourage personal, familial, and societal change. The ideal female role is that of a non-wage-earning wife and mother in a nuclear family where the husband is the provider and the woman’s energies are directed toward her family, the Church, and perhaps community service.
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Fiction
Benediction
Neal ChandlerArdmoore told Carmen Stavely, who’d been away in Idaho visiting family, that what happened that Sunday morning was absolutely confidential. The bishop had instructed all who’d been present to keep the matter strictly to themselves;…
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The Interview
John BennionTom looked at the sweat shining in the palms of his hands. Wiping them on his slacks, he opened the door into the stake president’s office and sat in a chair against the wall. A…
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