<i>Dialogue 8.1 (Spring 1973): 11–68</i><br>Lester Bush’s landmark article tells the most comprehensive history of the church’s teachings on race and priesthood, destabilizing the idea that it originated with Joseph Smith or had been consistently taught.
[…] problem” did not exist for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During those early months in New York and Ohio no mention was even made of Church attitudes towards blacks. The Gospel […]
<i>Dialogue 10.2 (Summer 1977): 12–46</i><br>The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing an […]
[…] origins. At one extreme are those who are skeptical of the book’s claims to antiquity who generally conclude that it is a pious fraud, written by Joseph Smith from information available in his immediate environment.
[…] 28. Mary L. Bradford to Joseph H. Jeppson, 20 August 1979, Dialogue Collection. The announcement made national headlines the following day. See for example these front page stories: Margorie Hyer, “Mormon Church Dissolves Black […]
[…] is certainly not one upon which Mormonism has a monopoly. But the past two decades have seen accelerating tensions in the relationship between the institutional church and the two overlapping subcommunities I claim—intellectuals and feminists.
[…] Members of the quorums, however, would find themselves unable to keep the information to themselves and the news invariably spread through the conference. In the 1970s, President W. Wallace Smith opened the process significantly […]
[…] need for safety. That is, a person will seek to find or create a life where the world is stable, lawful, predictable, and, above all, safe. Once the physiological and safety needs have been […]
Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Six was not a dull year for the 127-year-old Deseret News. Melvin Dummar, a Box Elder County service station operator, was named, along with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day […]
<i>Dialogue 28.4 (Winter 1995): 105–119</i><br> This was a prelude to his book-length treatment Same-Sex Dynamics in 19th C. America: A Mormon Example, that looked at “intimacy” broadly defined, before the rise of homophobia in the post-WWII […]