[…] that I may accidentally say words that I would never mean. I replay conversations—even the most banal— over and over to remind myself that I didn’t accidentally hurt someone with my words, my tone […]
<i>Dialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 99–109</i><br> Reproductive gender essentialism claims exclude trans persons for their gender identity. However, these same arguments, when taken seriously, also exclude infertile and intersex women too. Such a strict definition […]
Sporadically over the past few years I have been writing a personal document titled “What I Believe.” The reason for this is twofold. First, as I have learned more, my beliefs have shifted. This […]
<i>Dialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 35–70</i><br> When we assess Joseph Smith’s early trials as if the word “pretended” indicated deliberate deception on Joseph’s part, we miss the larger picture.
Amy Harris is an associate professor of history at BYU and an accredited genealogist. A native of Ogden, Utah, she was lucky enough to be raised by spectacularly good parents and particularly stellar siblings. Her…
Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple. In the moment of the swerve, family oral history says, Richards tumbled down the slope into a swift-moving stream and was swept away, presumed to have been killed or […]
[…] their various purposes, or to ignore. The proverbial shelves are littered with the bits and pieces left over from their various constructions. Not everything is useful, even for historians and theologians, and bridges really […]
[…] the Church’s role in the Equal Rights Amendment debate to the Church’s later engagement with legal disputes over gay marriage in America, which he suggests continued in the elevation of the heterosexual family, rather […]
[…] In the first poem of the collection, “The Book of Mormon Was Written for Our Day” ( 3), Goldberg contrasts the platitude that this sacred text was “written for our day” by “a voice […]
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