The Divine Feminine in Mormon Art
April 12, 2022[…] thousands of images of Heavenly Mother in just a few years. If “religion is a projection of human ideals,” as scholar Taylor Petrey has argued, then much of Mormon art depicting God tells a […]
[…] thousands of images of Heavenly Mother in just a few years. If “religion is a projection of human ideals,” as scholar Taylor Petrey has argued, then much of Mormon art depicting God tells a […]
[…] when writing about homosexuality. He borrows a dated argument from Desmond Morris, the anthropologist, who in The Human Zoo states that humans like captured animals are no longer living in conditions natural to our […]
Dialogue 53.1 (Spring 2020): 33–47
In this essay, I discuss this history, present evidence that Latter -day Saint men sold abortion pills in the late nineteenth century, and argue that it is likely some […]
[…] Central to Joseph’s creative energies was a profound commitment to an ideal of cosmic as well as human collaboration. His personal mode of leadership increasingly shifted from autocratic to collaborative—and that mode infused both […]
[…] it. “You have to have a society, if you’re going to be civilized, that accommodates for the human error that may occur, and allows for a remedy that is progressive and civilized, and allows […]
Dialogue 48.1 (Spring 2015):169–177
In this “From the Pulpit,” Jared Hickman discussed the self -confessed weaknesses of multiple authors in the Book of Mormon, indicating that the text is not the literal word of God. […]
[…] pioneers in a cause, no curious in search of messages, but merely volunteers hoping that this brief human contact would assure us of our humanity and others of theirs. I wanted to feel that […]
[…] “white supremacy,” I do so as they are used by scholars who work on race in the humanities, social sciences, and related applied scholarly fields. Racism is the system of ideas, beliefs, and practices […]
[…] and creation. But that relationship, that connection with our roots, is not based primarily on our past—or humankind’s past. (This may be an essential difference between the temple experience for our two churches. I […]
[…] the light, as well as the lease, on life. I was reluctant to burden this emergence into humanity with too many institutional attitudes for to do so was not just the obvious exploitation of […]