Book Review: Matthew James Babcock. Heterodoxologies: Essays.
January 26, 2018Matthew James Babcock. Heterodoxologies: Essays. Butte, Mont.: Educe Press, 2017. 204 pp. Reviewed by […]
Review: The Call to Empathy in Elizabeth Garcia’s Stunt Double: A Seminar in Three Bodies
March 14, 2019[…] during an EKG. Wonder Woman’s first stunt double, a hairy-chested man “packed into spandex,” runs his mind over memories of his mother—watching her pull on nylons, listening to her sing as they swam—while he […]
After a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology: A Ten-Year Retrospective
December 10, 2021Dialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 111–137
Ten years ago, my article “ Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology” was published in Dialogue. I did not know what to expect when it made its way into the […]
Archive of the Covenant: Reflections on Mormon Interactions with State and Body
March 23, 2021[…] reason that the “born this way” language of the marriage equality movement has had so little effect on the Mormon population compared to others is that it directly contradicts very recent and revered theological claims.
Intersexes in Humans: An Unexplored Issue in LDS Traditional Beliefs
April 24, 2018Dialogue 12. 3 (Fall 1979): 107–113
In the Fall 1979 issue, an LDS evolutionary biologist wrote a really important piece, ahead of its time in some ways, challenging the idea of binary gender in […]
Guides to Heavenly Mother: An Interview with McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding
April 12, 2022Dialogue 55.1 (Spring 2022): 135-166 When Dialogue asked us to write a personal article about our process of writing A Girl’s Guide to Heavenly Mother (D Street Press, 2020), we were delighted.
Genetics and Gathering the House of Israel
April 5, 2023[…] Space (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Russell M. Nelson, “The Gathering of Scattered Israel,” Oct. 200 6; Quentin L. Cook, “Lamentations of Jeremiah: Beware of Bondage,” Oct. 2013; Russell M. Nelson and Wendy […]
The Gold Plates and Ancient Metal Epigraphy
July 17, 2019[…] Thomas highlights the different metal writing cultures from around the same time as the Book of Mormon periods to see if it is historically likely for the Gold Plates to exist from that time period.
On Fidelity, Polygamy, and Celestial Marriage
April 17, 2018Dialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 138–154
England shares his reasons for why Joseph Smith introduced polygamy and then removed it as one of the commandments. England argues that polygamy was a faith testing experience which […]
Utah Naming Practices, 1960–2020
March 29, 2024[…] Names and Naming: Names, Identity, and Belief, ed. Dallin D. Oaks, Paul Baltes, and Kent Minson (Milton Park, UK: Routledge, 2013), 70–100. Cleveland Evans, “Contemporary Latter-day Saint Naming,” in Oaks, Baltes, and Minson, Perspectives on […]