For our Dialogue Gospel Study (14 March 2021) on Doctrine and Covenants 25, Melody Newey Johnson asked participants to write down a word, words, or phrases that came to mind when they thought of […]
[…] Fireside podcast, “New Words.” Mary Rakow, “New Words with Mary Rakow,” Fireside with Blair Hodges, Sept. 13, 2021, podcast. Isaiah 45:7. Life of Pi, directed by Ang Lee (20th Century Fox, 2012), DVD, 21:16–21:29. […]
Today, June 20, 2021, is the first day since March 15, 2020 that we in the Stanford First Ward have been allowed to attend service in our own building without masks and social distancing. […]
[…] Mother is very much alive in the everyday lives of thousands of Church members. Peggy Fletcher Stack’s 2021 Mother’s Day article in the Salt Lake Tribune reported: “There is a tidal wave of interest […]
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 […]
[…] might be one thing if it was clear that racism had disappeared. But it has not. In 2021, Brigham Young University released a study that showed its BIPOC students “consistently feel isolated and unsafe, […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] the motion on the table, refer it to committee, or whatever. The process works out pretty well. It’s a big meeting, and so you’ve got to have pretty good management of the meeting. At […]
Dialogue 53.2 (Summer 2020): 108–123
I felt free. I felt empowered. I might fall in love and get married, or
I might not. Either way would be fine. I didn’t need to have the same
life path as all of my friends and family. I realized that I am the way I
am, and I couldn’t change it. I needed to respect it. I had to listen to
myself, and not to everyone around me, including Church leaders. I
had to follow my heart and do what makes me happy, and it would all
get figured out in the end.