<i>Dialogue 23.1 (Spring 1990): 11–36</i><br>A history of Black LDS social groups and organizations. The Genesis Group gave African Americans a better chance to connect with fellow African Americans through frequent socials. The first group […]
[…] members who no longer “gather unto Zion” in America. How can the Church bureaucracy possibly communicate Church news and doctrinal discussions on an international scale? The Church’s response to these problems has been impressive. […]
<i>Dialogue 28.4 (Winter 1995): 31–55</i><br>In many respects the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of the 1960s mirrored the general tumult, if not the details, of the larger American society.
[…] less than forty years later, marriage has moved from the margins to the center of gay rights politics and activism. Chauncey suggests two important reasons for this shift, both occurring in the 1980s: the […]
<i>Dialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 1–33</i><br> Despite its alleged antiquity, jutting back centuries before the Common Era, and its predominant setting in the Americas, the Book of Mormon contains several Matthean and Lukan additions to […]
[…] would be somewhat surprising if our political and social ideas were anything but part of the general American consensus. I shall be contending here that while such ideas run quite a gamut among modern […]
Thoreau wrote in the beginning of Walden, “I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.” […]
[…] of the “Zion” of Enoch was that “there was no poor among them” (Moses 7:18-19). The Church today teaches that the Zion of Enoch, or the New Jerusalem, will return with the Lord at […]
[…] the United States. While most Americans ap pear to us to be interested in discussing religion and politics, both topics are considered taboo in Australian society. Those few Australians who discuss religion or who […]
[…] not supposed to exist. That notion, as applied to the church Correlation program, suggests some intriguing possibilities. Today’s centralized church, situated in the American Intermountain West, works fastidiously to assure that the gospel message […]