[…] time even exhilarating, continually gratifying place as an “inside-outsider” in Zion. My first introduction to the Mormon world came in September 1960, when our family (my husband Tony, our eight-year-old son Stephen, and I) […]
[…] standpoint of academic freedom as one can expect to find anywhere in this country or in the world. Of course, there are limitations in all institutions. There are limitations which a qualified instructor should […]
[…] more openly associated with gay and lesbian members. It was also the subject of a later ground- breaking study conducted by lesbian club member, Mildred Berryman. Begun in the 1920s, The Psychological Phenomena of […]
[…] are “the untaught” (2 Nephi 9:26; Mosiah 3:11, 15:24). Wesley observed that “enlightened Heathens in the ancient world” and “the most intelligent Heathens that are now on the face of the earth” are “totally […]
[…] Literature,” Mormon Letters Annual, 1984 (Salt Lake City: Association for Mormon Letters, 1985), 163. Yoshihiko Kikuchi, “ Breaking Barriers,” 1-2, speech delivered at Brigham Young University, 26 Jan. 1993, copy in my possession. Lighten […]
[…] were still smarting from the Copernican revolution, Joseph Smith’s revelations included frequent references to God’s vast creations—” worlds without number” (D&C 76:24, 88:37-39, 93:10; Moses 1:29-35; Abr. 3:9). In another departure from Chris tian […]
[…] hope that in the future maybe more Genesis groups will be organized within the Church throughout the world so that black members can worship together for culture sake” (1985, 12). In Washington, D.C., “Negro […]
Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2012): 70–83
I will be talking today about how women fit into the functional structure of LDS church governance; but, unlike many of the others speaking today, I do not have advanced […]
[…] October, 1966, General Conference. The first is that of taking the message of the restoration to the world. “The other great purpose of the Church is to translate truth into a better social order […]
[…] run the theoretical importance lies not so much in whether contact between the Old and the New World took place, but rather in the degree of impact such contact might have had on New […]