Dialogue 53.3 (Fall 2021): 1–76
Given the inadequate tools to police racial boundaries, LDS Church leaders like Joseph Fielding Smith struggled to define precisely where Black and light-skinned Latter-day Saints fit into the Church’s […]
[…] in Utah. With the Salt Lake Tribune (founded in 1869) as the Liberal trumpet and the Deseret News speaking for the People’s Party, the two parties went forth into a quarter-century battle of the […]
[…] the perishable ness of earthly things. We lived in St. Paul in the spring of ’65 during news making floods. We were unaffected physically, but being there involved us emotionally, and I was sobered […]
[…] a pattern of oppression. Humility breaks a pattern of arrogance and ignorant pride. The genealogy of the world is an ugly pattern in which hate begets hate, war begets war, meanness begets meanness, oppression […]
[…] but we did not realize to what degree we shared the best of two, almost mutually exclusive worlds. Now that we have “joined” society, with my husband slipping into the role of bread-winner with […]
[…] An allusion to blood atonement was also contained in a Februrary 26, 1972 editorial in the Church News: Biblical principles are sound, and are as applicable today as they were in ancient times. One […]
[…] issue. Joseph Smith, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deserer News, 1950) V, 80n. Millennial Star 1 (1841), 252-55. Cf. Robert Bruce Flanders, Nauvoo: Kingdom on the […]
[…] scale changes in our ability to do harm to each other. All of the explosives used in World War I amount to an estimated 1 million tons. Those explosives killed 8 million people with […]
[…] respectively by Americans and Russians and of the danger of letting these images replace reality in our mutual dealings. The backlash from his article in subsequent Letters to the Editor demonstrated how accurate and […]
[…] movement, with some 30 percent of unionized workers at one point supporting socialist policies, and hundreds of newspapers and magazines. One socialist newspaper, the Appeal to Reason had a circulation of over three quarters […]