Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 61–71
THE WORLD IS RAPIDLY CHANGING as new technologies change the way we think, act, and live. This is particularly true with the many changes biology has wrought in our lives […]
[…] to the witch hunts, from the massive slaughter, enslavement, exploitation, and oppression of Indigenous peoples throughout the world sanctioned by Christian colonizers to the use of theological and scriptural “truth” to oppress and marginalize […]
[…] who read a great deal and learned readily. I grew up in a family that spoke good English. I think I had all the advantages I would have had if my parents had had […]
[…] the Oneida community was disbanded. In 1837, when Mormon headquarters was located in Kirtland, Ohio, a Cleveland newspaper fifteen miles away printed a letter which argued for polygamy as a remedy for the “distress” […]
[…] where the doctrine but not the action in life is, worried that the students I counseled and read and philosophized with where I taught should reach for meaning for their lives and find no […]
[…] understand why they are not permitted to hold the priesthood.” Gussie must have been heartbroken at the news of this decision, but she was a strong woman and remained active and steadfast in her […]
[…] to President Lorenzo Snow on 9 April 1901 concerning an article she had read in the Deseret News. It had stated: “Priest, Teacher or Deacon may administer to the sick, and so may a […]
[…] LDS culture can bar even women from enlightening themselves through personal narrative. Since 1984 I have taught English 218R—Introduction to Creative Writing, with an emphasis in literary nonfiction—at Brigham Young University. In these classes, […]
[…] of the Word of Wisdom,” Brigham Young University Studies, I (1959), 37-49; M. Hamlin Cannon, “Migration of English Mormons to America,” American Historical Review, XIII (1944), 136-150; R. Kent Fielding, “The Mormon Economy in […]
Dialogue 18.2 (Summer 1985): 92–113During the last twenty-five years, Reorganized Latter Day Saints have struggled to discover what it means to be the body of Christ in the modern world.