[…] each individual to achieve “the measure of their creation”? Soon I was illustrating for Exponent II, then writing articles and eventually a column, and attending or presenting at Exponent retreats in lovely New England […]
[…] Paulsen and Martin Pulido’s “‘A Mother There’: A Survey of Historical Teachings about Mother in Heaven.” Their essay reassured me that the “sacred silence” surrounding Heavenly Mother was not official doctrine and did not […]
[…] wonderful to read Nephi’s words of prophecy and promises as oriented toward the future still. He was writing of the possibilities available if people lived with the Spirit of the Lord. Clearly not all […]
[…] A Quaker woman in the circle had asked a difficult and uncomfortable question: “I heard women can’t get to heaven unless they have a husband. Can people get divorced?” Rueckert dodged the first part […]
[…] Maher and Anan started climbing over big rocks. I shouted to Maher, who was far ahead: “It’s getting dark. Halla and I are going back to the car.” Maher yelled back, “We’re almost to […]
[…] in Latter-day Saint Contemporary Art. New York: Center for Latter-day Saint Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalog. 133 pp. Paper: $29.95. ISBN: 9780578917917. Note: The Dialogue Foundation provides the web format of this article as a courtesy. […]
[…] demolished the traditional tale that the Church forfeited polygamy in 1890 with a clean swipe. That the essay appeared during a time of growing fundamentalist conversions, and concomitant media attention, only emphasized the challenge […]
A knot can be a beautiful thing. A knot can reveal truths about how the world works. Some people are so enraptured by knots, they dedicate their lives to studying them. I’m devoting no energy…
[…] them into one clear whole. In The Glass Looker, Mark Elwood does not attempt to smooth to gether the prophet’s early life but presents each version of the boy Joseph as a series of […]
[…] base pairs, which are separated into about a hundred new segments each generation. By the time you get five or six generations back, there will probably be ancestors from whom you have not inherited […]