[…] for more inquiry. But reason, like childcare, reverence, music, service, or gardening is only one of many human goods. I sustain a prophet as someone who can say something that is difficult and upsetting […]
[…] intercourse may be the way we procreate in mortality but not in other realms. If we extend human logic to the celestial kingdom, factoring in a gestation period of nine months, it would take […]
[…] is sui generis, in that it was supported by the LDS Church with astonishing commitments of financial and human resources. All three authors are practicing Latter-day Saints, and are employed by or are retired from […]
[…] to approach the tragic indirectly, by way of the aesthetic: Tragedy works by spinning the straw of human suffering into the gold of human pleasure in beauty. These essays, at their best, suggest that […]
[…] “a professional image for sister missionar-ies.”68 Buehner notes, “Research into the area of nonverbal communication and clothing design determined that the most professional image is considered to be the ‘executive’ or ‘business’ look which […]
Dialogue 46.2 (Spring 2016): 1–39
Blythe shows the denial among Culterites followers that the founder was involved in plural marriage.
[…] general, including nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints, is seen in Brigham Young’s statement, “You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived […]
[…] Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben have argued that really meaningful art, art that speaks most profoundly to our human experience, always carries within it a kind of resistance. There are a lot of ways this […]
[…] Hinckley’s responses, which seemed to be questioning the validity of these ideas, to be “refreshingly honest and human.” However, I believe his equivocating to be just an extension of Mormon leaders’ efforts since the […]
[…] judges and generals. The women from the scriptures and Church history were dynamo, but they were still human. Why not introduce girls to their ultimate female role model, Heavenly Mother? I have a master’s […]