Dialogue 5.3 (Fall 1966): 85–100
During the years of the Utah Territory, outsiders got appointed to the terrority to serve in various positions. For the most part, these Gentiles weren’t sympathetic towards the church, and one of the more famous outsiders is Chief Justice James B. McKean who tried to crack down on plural marriage.
[…] that for the present at least it was the Lord’s will that the Saints continue to oppose human law and that they contract and live in plural marriage relationships. So strong was his and […]
[…] not only the intricacies of this extraordinary power but also the profound emotional landscapes that define the human experience. As you listen, be prepared to navigate through complex emotional situations, including the poignant themes […]
Dialogue 40.1 (Spring 2007): 83–136
Watson explains how the secret marriage of Louis J. Barlow to a 15-year-old girl caused a major rift among fundamentalists. Today’s fundamentalist members are still experiencing the effects of that marriage.
[…] much of the latter nineteenth century, “I have been ambitious of but one thing, so far as human ambition is concerned, and that was to prove by the logic of conduct that my father […]
[…] And if so, how did they relate it back to the truth of their own condition as human beings? Now I must follow the trail of my own ancestor from Africa. I must know […]
Dialogue 4.4 (Winter 1969): 86–103
Lester E Bush wrote in response to Stephen G Taggart’s book which the author tried to show that the Church came from abololonist ideas because the Church was orginially founded in New York, but when they encountered pro slavery settlers in Missouri and faced the hostiltiy from the settlers early church leaders apparently changed their mind, even though Joseph Smith eventually did a turnabout from what records have shown regarding African Americans.
[…] “Roots and Fruits of Mormon Women,” a title I much prefer to the more sentimental and common designations of “roots and wings.” The class was very successful, presenting new information to all of us […]
[…] irony that any Mormon would experience a sense of blocked opportunity, for, theologically, with the doctrine that human beings are potential gods and goddesses, we are the church of maximum opportunity. This doctrine of […]
Dialogue 43.2 (Fall 2010): 45–63
Mormon women weren’t passive recipients of the new feminism. We helped to create it.