Joel Kirk Richards is a contemporary artist whose work engages with themes of antiquity, religion, spirituality, equality, and love. His work asks questions about modern application and implementation of religion as it relates to historical…
[…] from Cedar City. Mormon militia units and their Paiute Indian allies had besieged an emigrant train destined for California and composed of men, women, and children primarily from Arkansas. With John D. Lee in the […]
[…] held at the Salt Lake Public Library on September 5, 2008, sponsored by the Charles Redd Center for Western History at Brigham Young University, the Mormon History Association, the Tanner Humanities Center at the […]
[…] is also an artist and whose work will be featured in the next issue of Dialogue, lived for many years in Los Angeles before moving to Salt Lake City. They now live in the […]
It’s six o’clock, time for dinner and Little House on the Prairie reruns. I walk up the stairs as my mom is pulling some string beans out of the microwave. She asks me if […]
[…] I’ve no doubt that there were many wards throughout the country (and perhaps throughout the world) where, for reasons having to do with the beliefs and priorities of local or regional leaders, or perhaps […]
[…] I was on a slippery slope to apostasy. A counselor in my bishopric called to thank me for writing the letter; he had wrestled with the issue and the public position he had to […]
[…] are, of course, much older than Proposition 8. A decade earlier, when Hawaii temporarily instituted civil unions for same-sex couples, the Church issued “The Family: A Proclamation to the World.” The proclamation drew on […]
[…] the Qur’an, the Tao Te Ching, and the other classics that form our world’s vast spiritual library. For just about a century and a half, the comparative and respectful study of humanity’s sacred literature […]
[…] Lynn Pearson was publishing Daughters of Light (Provo, Utah: Trilogy Arts, 1973). While Catholic women were gathering for their first conference on ordination in 1975, Elouise Bell, a professor of English at Brigham Young […]