The Book of Mormon (hereafter BM), which Joseph Smith published in 1830, is mainly an account of the descendants of an Israelite family who left Jerusalem around 600 B.C.E. to come to the New World. […]
Dialogue 53.3 (Fall 2021): 1–76
Given the inadequate tools to police racial boundaries, LDS Church leaders like Joseph Fielding Smith struggled to define precisely where Black and light-skinned Latter-day Saints fit into the Church’s […]
[…] criticized moves into religious-right cultural and political issues, and a few threatened to leave the denomination in 2021 if one of the hard-right candidates were chosen as president; delegates chose an establishment conservative instead. […]
[…] Journal of Mormon Thought 37, no. 4 (Spring 2004): 5. Mathew Gérard, interview with author, Jan. 4, 2021. Mathew Gérard, interview with author, Jan. 4, 2021. Kira Olsen-Medina and Jeanne Batalova, “Haitian Immigrants in […]
3 Nephi 8-11; September 21: Margaret Blair Young Margaret Blair Young is an American writer and the president of the Congo Rising Corporation, a foundation focused on initiatives on the Democratic Republic of Congo, including film. She…
[…] a natural manifestation of Revealed Truth. To Mormons, the question so widely debated in the relevant literature —whether pornography can be shown to influence those exposed to it to engage in anti-social acts—seems not […]
[…] conservatism and conspiracy, Mormons have been faithful Republican voters ever since the early 1970s. Even today, in 2021, Utah is one of the reddest states, having voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 and […]
[…] and author recommendations that have shaped our preparation for this proposed book (now slated for publication in 2021). The dedication page of this book will appropriately honor Armand Mauss. Meanwhile, most important for us […]
[…] grouped in sets of ten (with the sequence of the stories varying between individual booklets) and were then presented (one set per person) to adult males and females, who were to rate the degree […]
[…] ample time to walk about Paris in the afternoon. Strolling after lunch in the afternoon is tempting but harmless. It is a time for introspection, for reflection upon his relationship with women, defining his […]