[…] Sumerau and Cragun, “Trans-forming Mormonism,” 117–21. Sumerau and Cragun, “Trans-forming Mormonism,” 120. Jan Drucker, personal communication, April 2021. This phrase was created in a collaboration with Dr. Drucker, who at the time was one […]
Today, June 20, 2021, is the first day since March 15, 2020 that we in the Stanford First Ward have been allowed to attend service in our own building without masks and social distancing. […]
[…] Mother is very much alive in the everyday lives of thousands of Church members. Peggy Fletcher Stack’s 2021 Mother’s Day article in the Salt Lake Tribune reported: “There is a tidal wave of interest […]
The Book of Mormon (hereafter BM), which Joseph Smith published in 1830, is mainly an account of the descendants of an Israelite family who left Jerusalem around 600 B.C.E. to come to the New World. […]
[…] fd. 3, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University. Jed Brewer to Christopher Smith, April 4, 2021. George Tripp, “Manti Mystery,” Utah Archaeology 9, no. 4, (Dec. 1963): 1; Jesse Jennings to Mrs. […]
Dialogue 53.3 (Fall 2021): 1–76
Given the inadequate tools to police racial boundaries, LDS Church leaders like Joseph Fielding Smith struggled to define precisely where Black and light-skinned Latter-day Saints fit into the Church’s […]
[…] might be one thing if it was clear that racism had disappeared. But it has not. In 2021, Brigham Young University released a study that showed its BIPOC students “consistently feel isolated and unsafe, […]
[…] criticized moves into religious-right cultural and political issues, and a few threatened to leave the denomination in 2021 if one of the hard-right candidates were chosen as president; delegates chose an establishment conservative instead. […]
[…] conservatism and conspiracy, Mormons have been faithful Republican voters ever since the early 1970s. Even today, in 2021, Utah is one of the reddest states, having voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 and […]
As part of our 2021 special issue on Indigeneity and Mormon Studies, we will include a roundtable on the problematic legacy of Christopher Columbus. On this day the United States celebrates Christopher Columbus, here […]