Dialogue 5 3.3 (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 […]
[…] of Jesus’ passion and have been used by centuries to aid Christian devotion and contemplation. In this online event produced in partnership with Dialogue, Wayfare Editor Zachary Davis introduces the story of the stations and […]
[…] socials. The first group was founded in Salt Lake City. Even being based in Utah, they couldn’t depend on a lot of outside support from other members or Church leaders, which became isolating for them.
Dialogue 14 .4 (Winter 1981): 28–39
Some time in June 1970,I invited a few friends to my house to chat about the then emerging women’s movement. If I had known we were about to make […]
Dialogue 23.4 (Winter 1990): 47–82In this essay, I will analyze recent Church discourse against a pattern of constricting employment options for women and will discuss the implications of that pattern.
Dialogue 25 .2 (Fall 1992): 75–96
The personal essay, unlike personal journals, letters, and oral histories, is not an artless form. It transforms the raw material of personal experience in the double crucible of carefully […]
Dialogue 28. 3 (Fall 1995): 1–12
As American feminist thinkers and organizers, we’ve walked a long road since then, a road that has led us farther and farther away from religious discourse and Christian justification. […]
Dialogue 4 .2 (Summer 1971): 73–76
Church members, from some General Authorities to some Sunday School teachers, are generally impressed with and concerned about “scientific proof” of the Book of Mormon. As a practicing scientist […]
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Secular scholarship and L.D.S. studies of archaeology and the Book of Mormon have had a discordant dialogue for some time. The scripture asserts, for example, that the civilizations it describes in ancient America had […]
[…] additional references to the Mormons. I hunted through monographs concerning American history, politics, and economics and disc overed to my surprise and delight that a whole literature on the “secular” aspects of Mormon culture […]