In his important study of Language, Belief, and Experience, the ethnographer Rodney Needham tells of a dream which disturbed his sleep one night. He found himself among a people he had once studied, […]
[…] something bad happening to me. Jack was looking like the rattled folk you see on the TV news. Had those eyes. He stood by the Nova and said, “It has me spooked is all […]
[…] the great majority of instances this will be so. In theory, at least, married couples have accepted mutual obligations to each other, have committed themselves to the comprehensive well-being of their partner, and have […]
[…] have entirely missed what I consider to be the true nature of art. Art, particularly in today’s world, is the antithesis of inflexibility. The Church can use only one kind of image—that which perpetuates […]
The growth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has recently slowed in Japan, as elsewhere, adding to the decades-long challenge for the Church of a low activity rate within the country. […]
[…] Science and religion are both serious subjects and worth further thought, but not together. One is the world of natural law, the other is the world of the supernatural. Trying to understand one by […]
[…] the Church, with the prophet and apostles, and radiates outward from there. This system of authority developed in the context of the Church’s efforts to colonize the U.S. Intermountain West, in its struggles with […]
[…] America—to use language I learned in church—a “city on a hill,” an example to the big wide world my extended family came from, or was it “Babylon,” worldwide marketer of wickedness, where wrong was […]
<i>Dialogue 47.4 (Winter 2014): 47–83</i><br>This study examines online Mormon feminists’ identities and beliefs and their responses to the Mormon Digital Awakening. This is the first published survey of online Mormon feminists, which gathered quantitative […]
<i>Dialogue 57:4 (Winter 2024) 107-112 </i><br> Since joining the Church, I have been blessed with a number of revelations relating to my life as a gay Mormon. Perhaps more remarkable may be how few […]