William B. Smith was a difficult man. Like so many who feel denied power and recognition, he was probably best described as being his own worst enemy. Certainly he could not be stereotyped as the…
[…] Leadership Award from the Church of Castle Hills, the Religious Award and the Outstanding Award from Phoenix’s Human Resources Depart ment, the Liberty Bell Award from the Maricopa County Bar Association for contributions to […]
Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 21–32
While an examination of that history leaves unanswered the question of women’s ordination to the priesthood, the historical overview of LDS women’s relationship to priesthood suggests a more expansive view than many members now hold.
Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 15–20
I have heard many LDS women approach the issue of women and the priesthood by protesting that they do not want to hold the priesthood because they have no interest in passing the sacrament or performing some other ecclesiastical duty. I will venture a guess that many men who have the priesthood do not particularly want to hold it either, and that some of them also have no interest in passing the sacrament. But the reluctance of some men would hardly be a good reason to prevent all men from holding the priesthood.
Late in the nineteenth century, thousands of Indians resentful of reservation life gathered in groups to chant and dance themselves into hypnotic trances until they collapsed from exhaustion. Some Plains Indians, while shuffling steps to…
[…] Vernal. To me they were mostly drunken and poor, and hardly lovable—in some ways, not even fully human. In Vernal in the early 1940s, the men were always referred to as “bucks” and the […]
[…] done on less than solid ground, regardless of our sympathies. The Book of Mormon is pessimistic about human nature (Lindgren 1983). According to Book of Mormon teachings, we are not on a progressive journey […]
Depression is a common problem in Western societies; various studies have reported that between 3.2 and 9.3 percent of the population suffers from clinical depression. Women seem to be at least two times more likely…
[…] the inside of a rest home, except for a quick holiday visit, miss an important part of human experience — even a sublime part. Amid physical and mental deterioration, pain and loneliness, the elderly […]
[…] labor given for the benefit of others. A cynic always lurks, eager to point out that all human behavior is motivated by self-interest. In truth, most behavior is multi-motivated and thus very complex. It […]