Since mid-century, dramatic changes in family demographics have characterized patterns of parenthood and sexual partnerships in America. As age at marriage has increased, the age at initiation of sexual inter course has decreased so […]
[…] 1967), 36. For Jesus’ reinterpretation or rejection of purity codes, see Marcus J. Borg, Conflict, Holiness, and Politics in the Teaching of Jesus (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1984), 73-144, 96-99; John P. Meier, […]
[…] “The War on Terrorism.” While I share America’s moral outrage over the barbaric attacks on our nation and its people, I have also felt uneasy about the quick polarizing rhetoric, the boasting of our […]
<i>Dialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128</i><br>JOSEPH SMITH GREW UP in a time and place where folk magic was an accepted part of the landscape. Before he was a prophet, he was a diviner, or more specifically, […]
[…] judge your Church according to its number of members here but rather by its influence in the USA and increasingly in the world.” The GDR wanted to improve its public image in the West, […]
[…] increase the frequency with which non-European faces and experiences are depicted in Church magazines, lesson manuals, and videos, continuing an already noticeable trend. Another important form of the Church’s reach into the grassroots takes […]
<i>Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2012): 70–83</i><br>I will be talking today about how women fit into the functional structure of LDS church governance; but, unlike many of the others speaking today, I do not have advanced […]
[…] remained politically neutral. Matthew Harris’s edited collection Thunder from the Right: Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics places Benson within his historical context and analyzes the influence that he had on the LDS […]
[…] practice, rooted in the belief in a divine curse on Black people, contradicts the principles of equality and brotherhood that the Church should embody. He concludes asserting that the time has come for the […]
[…] Saints’ Herald 26, Oct. 1, 1879, 289–90. James H. Hart, “About the Book of Mormon,” Deseret Evening News, Mar. 25, 1884. Dan Vogel, Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet (Salt Lake City: Signature […]