[…] perhaps, something inherently interesting to Mormons about reimagining our own brief history. Whether it’s a Zionistic yearning for our unfinished theocracy or a regretful wish to rewrite past wrongs, States of Deseret taps into our cultural […]
[…] could be open-minded and fair. In the educational struggle that ensued over the next eight years be fore his death from AIDS, he proved to be the prevailing teacher. I read the best literature […]
[…] A theory of incremental development is proposed based on a series of four distinct configurations or plans for the book’s structure, as Joseph understood it. The four-plan sequence is derived from textual analysis of […]
Dialogue 51.4 (Winter 2018): 171-174 Heavenly Mother is a cherished doctrine among many Latter-day Saints. Her unique esthetic of feminine deity offers Latter-day Saint women a trajectory for godhood—the ultimate goal of Mormon theology.
[…] of what value is it? Mr. Udall said nothing new, although he said it well. In asking for a resolution of this issue, and a salve for our troubled consciences, he asked for an […]
[…] 82–91
Any constitutional amendment unavoidably casts a shadow of uncertaintyover its future interpretation and implementation. The Fourteenth Amendment, for example, has far exceeded the originally perceived purpose—elevating thestatus of blacks—and has come to serve as […]
[…] young female Latter-day Saint then living with her mother and sisters in Philadelphia. The letter is remarkable for several reasons, notably the veiled glimpse it provides into Joseph Smith’s practice of polygamy. A complete […]
[…] men sustained as prophets, seers and revelators reasoned, sometimes even argued, and sought the Lord in prayer for an answer to their difficulties. That God responded by confirming the rightness of what they had […]
[…] modern man is often culturally obliged to be monogamous, he may be biologically predisposed to polygamy. There fore it should not surprise us that polygamy has been practiced in many parts of the world. […]
[…] Mormon?” In these episodes of exoticization, I never knew what to say. The available identifiers seemed unsuited for me, unintelligible to them: Jack Mormon, recovering Mormon, ex-Mo, po-Mo, lapsed, inactive, less active, backslider, “it’s […]