[…] Shakespeare in world literature—he would no doubt prefer to be re membered as a thinker, social re former, and preceptor of morality. After an excruciating crisis in his middle years he became preoccupied with […]
[…] Early and contemporary models of LDS authority have assumed heteropatriarchal, Western, democratic structures. Despite early communitarian ef forts like polygamy and the united order, the necessity to assimilate for survival has minimized much of […]
[…] Givens’ new book, which he co-authored with Matthew Grow, and which was published by the prestigious Ox ford University Press, is titled Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism, and is destined to […]
[…] produced by “The Mormon Theology Seminar,” an “unofficial and independent” scholarly collaboration. “Theology” is somewhat of a foreign word to many Mormons. (We have doctrine, we don’t have professional theologians, some might say.) But […]
Listen to an interview about this piece here. In 1980, LDS authorities used the term “transsexual” for the first time publicly when they prohibited “transsexual operations” in their official General Handbook of Instructions. They […]
[…] Mormons but Peruvian Mormons. In one of her many matchmaking trips back to her homeland of Peru for that very purpose, she discovered that her son Ammon had an affinity for her nephew Chalo’s […]
[…] in ecclesiastical functions, and also how we talk about that female church involvement to an external, media-in formed audience. As a marketer, I know how important it is for what we say we do […]
[…] serves to attract and retain converts. This article explores one aspect of this cultural exchange in the form of leadership culture. Examples from Europe and Latin America demonstrate that US leadership culture plays a […]
Dialogue 50.2 (Summer 2017): 1–52
“What do We know of God’s Will for his LGBT Children?: An Examination of the LDS church’s position on homosexuality” divides it up into a “doctrinal, moral, and empirical […]
Listen to the piece here. It may seem odd that an experienced fornicator like Bode Carpenter would get the girl pregnant in the first place—particularly because he carried a condom in the watch pocket […]