[…] Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology” was published in Dialogue. I did not know what to expect when it ma de its way into the world, but it ended up being a widely discussed piece and has […]
[…] weaknesses in the current theological conception of Heavenly Mother. Their approaches include exploring non-biological reproduction and multipli city of passageways, reintroducing kinship sealings, and adding additional female divine beings to our doctrinal pantheon. Scholars […]
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[…] fight with the United States government over polygamy, left little time for scientific investigations of the histori city of their Book of Mormon. From the late 1800s into the early twentieth century, the chief […]
[…] untranslatable. In 2001, in a sacred “sealing” ceremony within the holy walls of the Church’s Salt Lake City temple, my Peruvian Mormon fiancé Elvira and I formed the nucleus of a Church-sponsored, heaven-approved, eternal, […]
[…] in glorifying the Victorian mother. The cult of true womanhood’s four cardinal virtues—piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesti city—rang true in Mormon Utah. Through this final stage in their rite of passage, that of aggregation, […]
[…] a history book published the year before. This meant that we traveled from Utah to New York City to attend the awards ceremony at Columbia University.The prize was awarded at a dinner for three […]
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[…] Frederick had been little more than a schoolboy before 1903, pursuing graduate studies at the University of Missouri and leaving many of the presidency’s duties in Evans’s hands. Evans believed that the prophet’s poor […]
[…] church because they are surplus to the present needs of the organization, and in areas around Independence, Missouri, where there is a concentration of RLDS several of those chapels have been purchased by groups […]