[…] of Women of Covenant, during the Relief Society sesquicentennial year, gives us the first comprehensive history of a remarkable women’s organization. This account is part of the equally remarkable history of the LDS church […]
<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 […]
[…] week, but hates being in the Relief Society presidency, preferring rather to be back in Primary teach ing the children how to sing: fewer meetings and never a word about how “I can’t visit […]
[…] under standings of God in the JEP traditions (13), the possibility of “pious fraud,” as suggested by de Wette and Wellhausen in connection with the discovery of the book of the law (D) in […]
There once was a time, albeit brief, when a “Negro 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 […]
[…] the Comoros the previous month, after stopping first at the neighboring Island of Johanna. It would not de part again until April 18. Its captain, William (a.k.a. Robert) Kidd, did not know he would […]
[…] of grass from her matted hair. The woman takes the three steps down onto the cement land ing of the deck. She squints at Jennifer. “You sure you’re okay? You look a little—I don’t […]
[…] for her to hang in. Interestingly, our positions, at that time, were about mid-way, as two pass ing elevators going in opposite directions, although I’m not certain as to who was going up or […]
[…] scuttlebutt the last couple decades over the “real” details surrounding Joseph Smith—whether his polygamy, treasure-hunting, translating with a stone, whatever—has weakened Church members’ collective confidence in a once solid-seeming story. But while new information […]
[…] He prioritizes this “small account” as the vessel for retaining the choicest Nephite teachings: “I, Nephi, received a commandment that the ministry and the prophecies, the more plain and precious parts of them, should […]