[…] it responsibly. We refer readers to ReportingOnSuicide.org for guidance on how to discuss the issue in our online as well as personal conversations. We also recommend resources such as the Family Acceptance Project, I’ll […]
Dialogue 26.3 (Summer 1995):163–180
FOR TRADITION-MINDED MEMBERS of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints the Book of Mormon’s historicity is a given: Book of Mormon events actually occurred and its ancient participants […]
[…] the summer of 1828, a short time after D&C 3, which was written in July 1828. This dating (summer 1828) could be an error attributable to James Mulholland’s insertion of it on separate sheets […]
[…] the Mormon leaders in Kirtland—and none more diligently than Joseph Smith—devoted much of their attention to the formal study of Hebrew, under a competent scholar who was also an impressive teacher., They sat in […]
[…] Bentley, then employed at the University of Utah. The project involved writing biographical sketches of important personalities dating from the founding years of the colonies’ history. She had gathered several notebooks of memoirs, letters, […]
Wallace Stegner once observed, “a faith crushed by law or force will merely go underground. . . when outward resistance is impossible, the inward resistance remains.” This description might well apply to this story […]
[…] ways that do active harm. I was slated to be the creator of the Church’s first anti-racist online course via their publishing company. My public criticism of a living Church leader’s prejudice, however, kept […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] (Fall 1981): 11–45
Mauss situates the 1978 revelation on the priesthood in modern American historical context. Everything changed for the Church during the Civil Rights Movement when people both inside and outside the Church were […]
[…] Mother in Heaven from the scriptures. I then will draw from those descriptions some (very modest) suggestions for how we might actually worship, or at least honor, Her in ways that should not be […]