[…] that sex determination, in the physical body at least, is affected by and almost certainly controlled and determined by genetic and hormonal means, in other words, it not only has a physical basis of […]
[…] not perform at BYU, and as racist rumors spread throughout the area. It was a fearful, fear -mongering time. I attended the Provo Temple dedication on February 9, 1972 and was moved by the […]
[…] streets waved handkerchiefs and shouted hosannas. The occasion was a historic milestone, marking not only the near -completion of the Church’s most ambitious building project but the end of an era as well. The […]
Dialogue’s Board of Directors announces a search for a new editor -in–chief to begin in 2024. Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought has long served as the journal of record for the intellectual and […]
[…] 1994): 68–97
For faithful Mormons, the thought that someone had violated the sacred confines of the eighteen -year–old Salt Lake temple, which he desecrated by photographing, was “considered as impossible as profaning the sacred […]
[…] Cor. 15:29 Although the Bible briefly mentions vicarious baptism, the belief was not a part of mid -nineteenth–century American religions. Even such denominations as the Disciples of Christ (Campbellites), who professed to find the […]
[…] to their visual dominance. European Mormons sometimes feel that in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints they have been dealt a short hand in architecture, as in this sense, Mormonism does […]
[…] as one of the very few aspects of Mormonism still able to evoke suspicion about how “normal” Mormons really are. When non -Mormons, and even Mormons who fail to qualify in some respect, are […]
Dialogue 55.3 (Fall 2022): 75 -106
As a contribution to the larger project of examining the King James Bible’s influence on The Book of Mormon, this essay focuses on several aspects of the problem […]
[…] their own divinity reflected in the stories told about God. First, with Heavenly Mother as the only female divinity, divine expression of womanhood is restricted to motherhood. This excludes many women, including women struggling […]