[…] not be considered offensive or heterodox by traditionalists. This essay is therefore a little exercise in religion -making. It is my hope that I will be able to express my mediating thoughts in a […]
[…] 53–84</i><br> This essay explores conflicting messages within LDS teaching on LGBT rights, when it both opposed same -sex marriage and in the wake of Prop 8 also came out in support of other LGBT […]
[…] response to Elijah’s petition affirms that Israel’s god is a god of life, a god who champions human systems of justice and equity that encourage and support flourishing for all and utterly and completely […]
<i>Dialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 111–137</i><br> 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 […]
<i>Dialogue 53.3 (Fall 2020): 41–106</i><br> Regarding the discussions in Mormon studies and other literary sub -fields related to contemporaries of Smith, the availability of ideas about 1 Enoch and some of the actual content […]
“He will unveil his face to you.” D&C 88:67–68 “Everything in the realm of nature and human existence is a sign—a manifestation of God’s divine names and attributes. . . . As it is said in the […]
[…] has always implied a suitability of environment which negates mere dimensional adequacy as the primary factor in design. When environment created for religious purposes fails to provoke the desired emotional response from the participant, […]
[…] What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels.” How open and pious have Latter–day Saint scholars been in searching for […]
[…] to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. […]
[…] with the settled & permanent views of our president should be laid aside as emanations of erring human wisdom.” The stage, however, had been set for further confrontation. Pratt would submit to the demands […]