[…] Lehi’s descendants into refugees, forcibly displacing those they had not already killed from their ancestral lands, then breaking treaty after treaty whenever they coveted the latest place of Native American resettlement. Eventually the Native […]
[…] binary under the guise of God’s law, but their method of excluding queerness from Mormonism is slowly breaking down with the rise of queer Latter-day Saint visibility, activism, theology, and sympathy. To be clear, […]
Dialogue 54.1 (Spring 2021): 69–79
Five years after my excommunication, I met and entered into a relationship with the man who is my husband to this day. We became a couple in 1991; we held a public commitment ceremony in 1995, a time when same-sex marriage was legal nowhere in the United States; we purchased a home together in 1996; and we legally married in California in 2008. Regardless of how or why I was excommunicated in 1986, current Church policy is such that if I were a member, my bishop would have grounds for excommunicating me now, and I cannot currently be reinstated into membership.
[…] man. Growing up, if he had control of the TV, there was a decent chance that Fox News would be playing. Every morning, we would listen to Glenn Beck on our way to school. […]
[…] Testament, 230–246. See John Goldingay and David Payne, Isaiah 40–55, Volume 1: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary, International Critical Commentary (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2006), 1n2. Bernhard Duhm, Das Buch Jesaja (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & […]
[…] just water, and three weeks with grape juice. Following the fast, the individual spends ten days carefully breaking the fast with raw food. In a supplementary document on the importance of fasting circulated within […]
[…] invites all to participate in worldwide fast Sunday and to pray for relief from coronavirus pandemic,” Deseret News, Mar. 26, 2020. Jason Swensen, “President Nelson calls for a second worldwide fast in response to […]
[…] Thought when it was located in Virginia. In mid-1981, Mary Bradford, the editor, gave me the distressing news that Lavina, who had been on the editorial staff of The Ensign, had been fired. Nearly […]
[…] the catch word “steadfast.” The combining of these texts based on a catch word only works in English. The Greek text of Hebrews 6:19 uses the words “asphale” and “bebaian” for “sure and steadfast,” […]
[…] is unaware of the timing of his coming: “And now we only wait to hear the joyful news declared unto us by the mouth of angels, of his coming; for the time cometh, we […]