[…] the epitome of natural human development and a practical obstacle in claiming the land and its bounties. For the religious, Indians provided an opportunity to convert the heathen, both in the Southwest and New […]
One fascinating development in the Proposition 8 debate in Cali fornia was the extent to which secular arguments-involving legal, political, and sociological claims-came to take center stage, even in announcements from the Church itself. […]
Dialogue’s Board of Directors announces a search for a new editor-in-chief to begin in 2024. Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought has long served as the journal of record for the intellectual and cultural […]
[…] by Grant Heward (who has studied Egyptian on his own and reports that he was recently excommunicated for his views on Joseph Smith’s ability to translate Egyptian) and Jerald Tanner (who heads Modern Microfilm, […]
Though leadership of a living prophet offers possibilities for both on going and dramatic change, Mormon society values permanence, order, and stability in this life and the next. “We do not need innovation,” a […]
Immediately upon the passage of territorial legislation enfranchising Utah’s women in 1870, almost fifty years be fore the Nineteenth Amendment extended the vote to American women, arguments erupted between the Mormon and non-Mormon community […]
[…] Christ of Latter-day Saints given to the visual arts in Utah?” One would hardly consider as fields for fruitful exploration Baptist support of the arts in Mississippi, Lutheran encouragement in Oregon, or Methodist patronage […]
For Doug Thayer There was a knock at the apartment door. My companion, Carr, slouched at his desk, tinkering with a delicate butterfly he’d just formed from a piece of thin copper wire […]
[…] old emotions, or at least recall them. Dr. Jensen had taken out his appendix, tonsils, treated him for all of his childhood diseases, and set his broken wrist. He had come to the clinic […]
[…] came easily. The muscles of their mouths, the muscles in their legs, shoulders, backs—they all moved ef fortlessly, without consequence. “Just got the permit, Aunt Elaine,” Chip, Ben’s boy, had said on the phone. […]