Family Scriptures
April 17, 2018[…] walked home across the sage-covered hills, half-carrying his friend who had used the trip to Blackfoot to buy whiskey. “And that’s how I cast my first vote,” Grandpa would say. Of all his stories, […]
[…] walked home across the sage-covered hills, half-carrying his friend who had used the trip to Blackfoot to buy whiskey. “And that’s how I cast my first vote,” Grandpa would say. Of all his stories, […]
[…] ne brush strokes recall the Japanese masters of the haiku. He is adept at sketching the place where nature meets its creator as it dreams of “taking the soul in hand / and twisting […]
[…] an ordinary Mormon. He served in President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s cabinet as the secretary of agriculture (1953-19 61), while also serving as an apostle in the church. Later he served as the church president. […]
[…] his mouth, put on / a sackcloth of verbs (want, need), / cleared his throat. Cried out” ( 3). Sunni Brown Wilkinson this way begins her collection The Marriage of the Moon and the Field, effectively […]
[…] Covenants, the Lord reminds missionaries to continue “praying always” (D&C 75:11); “Pray always,” states Nephi (2 Ne. 32:9); echoing Paul’s words, Alma calls on his followers to “pray without ceasing” (Mosiah 26:39); and when […]
[…] a philosopher and assistant professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. He’s the author or edi tor of eight books, most recently of 1st Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction, published this year by […]
[…] Dutch people as possible, both in Zoetermeer and in the wider region. The open house drew some 33,000 visitors to the temple, as well as a considerable amount of press coverage. For the members, […]
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2024 Dialogue seeks to foster a deeper understanding of the complex and multifaceted concept of family, marriage, and kinship within the United States and global context of Latter-day Saint (LDS) […]
Dialogue 56.1 (Spring 2023): 27–55
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Desiring to better understand how people are navigating these complex identity negotiations, I interviewed seven trans and/or gender nonconforming Mormons […]
[…] provided online and on JSTOR. Joseph Smith History 1:38–39. See also Doctrine and Covenants 2; Malachi 4:5– 6. Doctrine and Covenants 128; see also 138:47–48. For an extended treatment of this view of salvation […]