Volume 53, No. 4

Winter 2020

The Winter 2020 Issue begins with Patrick Mason's look at Politics of Mormon History and Colleen Karnas-Haines' look at the Children's Songbook. And if you thought moving away from the name “Mormon” in English was tricky, wait til you read the story of changing the Church’s name in China from Chiung Hwang Chen. Find beautiful poetry and personal voices and many book reviews including reviews of some recent novels on polygamy. And much more!

Articles/Essays

The Politics of Mormon History

Patrick Mason

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The Quest for Universal Music in the LDS Children’s Songbook

Colleen Karnas-Haines

Rebranding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Chinese-Speaking Regions

Chiung Hwang Chen

Fiction

Mormon Saga

Maurine Whipple

Maurine Whipple wrote this previously unpublished story of blind, unrelenting faith in the 1920s, perhaps for a course at the University of Utah. It probably grew out of the countless hours a young Whipple spent listening to “women’s talk,” the telling and retelling of stories of travail, birth, illness, and...

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Personal Voices

Archive of the Covenant: Reflections on Mormon Interactions with State and Body

Kit Hermanson

Dialogue 53.4 (Winter 2020): 79–107
In the logic of Mormon theology, an internal lack of faith is in part a result of the mismanagement of my mortal embodiment. Part of the reason that the “born this way” language of the marriage equality movement has had so little effect on the Mormon population compared to others is that it directly contradicts very recent and revered theological claims.