Winter 1991
The Winter 1991 Issue examines lesser-known facets of Mormon history, cultural diversity, and personal narratives. Neal Chandler reveals stories from the Book of Mormon often omitted from traditional teachings, while Lola Van Wagenen explores how Mormon women politicized to secure voting rights in 1870. Ken Driggs discusses modern polygamy among fundamentalist Mormons in Utah. Mario S. De Pillis, Mane Cornwall, and Marjorie Newton analyze Mormonism's shift toward mainstream status and its challenges from multiple perspectives, including Australian and Reorganized Church viewpoints. Helen Papanikolas considers issues of ethnicity, diversity, and internal conflicts within the church. Robert A. Rees, in a sermon, discusses the concept of "bearing crosses" with grace, especially regarding single Mormons. In the "Personal Voices" section, Steve Siporin shares experiences as a Jewish individual within a Mormon community, while Angela B. Haight and Angela G. Wood reflect on family loss and gratitude, respectively.
Dialogue 24.4 (Winter 1993):15–50
n fact, it may be no more than a kind of perversity that brings me to admit what I will tell you now, namely, that when it comes to the Book of Mormon, that most correct of books, whose pedigree we love passionately to debate and whose very namesakes we have, all of us, become, I stand mostly with Mark Twain.
Dialogue 24.4 (Winter 1991): 75–96
IMMEDIATELY UPON THE PASSAGE of territorial legislation enfranchising Utah’s women in 1870, almost fifty years before the Nineteenth Amendment extended the vote to American women, arguments erupted between the Mormon and non-Mormon community over the reasons behind this legislation.
Dialogue 24.4 (Winter 1991): 44–58
Driggs shares the story of how in between the First and Second Manifestos, polygamy was still happening in secret.
Tildy Elizabeth sat by the cradle, Book of Mormon open on her knee. One hand rocked absently while the other traced in painful concentration the small print, dim in the yellow lamplight. Some time ago…
