[…] the Church was confronting national opposition, 2,000 LDS women gathered at the Capitol Theater in Salt Lake City on 6 March 1886 to address the reports that they were violating Christian marriage principles. Among […]
[…] liberal religion, who, it would seem, have finally discovered discrimination in the churches during the last two decades. The recent attention directed to the Mormon Church over this issue is, however, only partly a […]
[…] Amanda and the young family of Amanda’s brother, Edward (Ned) Leggroan, Samuel undramatically arrived in Salt Lake City in 1870. Unlike so many thousands of converts and emigrants, the Chambers group had gathered to […]
[…] Rebecca Russavage, Charlotte Schultz, and Olivia Whiteley. Maxine Hanks, Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992). Contributors to the book who were excommunicated: Maxine Hanks, Michael Quinn, Lavina F. […]
[…] the long ride home, missing stoplights and taking wrong turns as we simultaneously threaded our way through city traffic and through the tangle of emotions these meetings aroused. Our group talked about Betty Friedan, […]
[…] a cultural historian, observes: “Mythology is not a propositional system of knowledge. Truth is not an i deology. Truth is that which overlights the conflict of opposed ideologies, and the conflict of opposed ideologies […]
[…] is section 123. Historically, it pertains to keeping a record of persecution the Saints suffered while in Missouri, but verses 7-17 describe in strong terms the effects of the “creeds of the fathers” (v. […]
DIALOGUE: On Monday, November 27, 1967, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City presented a number of documents to President N. Eldon Tanner of the First Presidency, who accepted them on behalf […]
The emergence of Michigan’s Governor George Romney as a strong conten der for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1968, the popular Mormon exhibit at the New York World’s Fair, and the spread of Mormon […]
Dear Sirs: Re: Secretary Udall’s letter The Lord has not spoken, The Prophet is silent, And so am I. Alexander T. Stecker Belmont, Massachusetts *** Dear Sirs: You wanted a Dialogue—so now you […]