[…] public morality in nineteenth century America. Lawyers and philosophers, on the other hand, have made the en forcement of morals a major issue, particularly in recent times. The central question is to what extent, […]
[…] Church. At 9 A.M. that same morning, Arizona’s Governor Howard Pyle intoned solemnly over KTAR radio: Be fore dawn today the State of Arizona began and now has substantially concluded a momentous police action […]
[…] Johnson presided over one of the oldest and largest fundamentalist Mormon groups, organizers of the United Ef fort Trust in Colorado City, Arizona, formerly known as Short Creek. Accepted as a prophet by his […]
[…] 51.3 (Fall 2018): 201–208
“What can we do to help and make a difference in the fight for racial and social justice?” McCoy responds to the BYU students who asked these questions which he […]
[…] the wealth and progress of the country, yet encountered bitter opposition. . . . Sudden influxes of foreigners with strange ways and attitudes always do that, everywhere” (Morison 1965, 481). The discrimination northern European […]
Dialogue 8.1 (Spring 1973): 78–86
Responding to Bush, Eugene England compared the story of Abraham which is uncom fortable for him calling it a cross, to the church wide policy of denying anyone who has […]
Introduction I and many Mormons ache to apologize for our 130-year practice of excluding people of Black African ancestry from temple and priesthood participation. We long to apologize for our community’s attempts during and […]
[…] to my bishop to discuss some things that had happened in my life, and I asked him for a blessing. There were circumstances in my family—my husband was inactive, and I had an unusual […]
[…] to our religious life—our scriptures, our hymns, and our prayers. I recognize that not everyone is com fortable analyzing the way we speak or altering traditional forms of speech. That discomfort may become particularly […]
[…] Society-type projects, the sort of thing they were quite experienced in doing, that they had been doing for years with little particular attention. They didn’t think that that much was really happening, but they […]