[…] tool of sexist church leaders. It was too much. I felt a fierce desire to show the world Mormon women as I know them: liberal, conservative, confident, fearful, happy, depressed, sometimes all of the […]
[…] between the needs of the individual and of the community, between civilization and the wilderness, between the world and the Church, between the Saints and God — the struggling im perfect prophet in whom […]
[…] defended the Mormon system of plural marriage, mirroring Young’s remarks by contrasting the corrupt and debased outside world, which recognized the common law and merely winked at adultery, to the territory of Utah, which […]
Listen to Claremont Chair of Mormon Studies Patrick Mason discuss and dissect anti-mormonism, polygamy, current politics, Native American, African-Americans, religious pluralism, slavery, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Cane Creek Massacre and much more in […]
[…] class=”alignnone size-medium wp-image-3145″ title=”logo01″ src=”https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/logo01-300×73.png” alt=”” width=”300″ height=”73″ /> This week marked the ignition of the new online journal Religion & Politics with some familiar Dialogue faces participating. Board Member Max Mueller serves […]
Title: Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theolog
I watched Groundhog Day the other night. I’ve owned the DVD for years but […]
[…] tradition. ”The Mormon imagination is solidly grounded in material reality,” writes Webb, “but it takes the physical world to new and unheard-of heights” (10). Webb believes Christian lungs can benefit from the rarefied air […]
[…] size-full wp-image-5935″ src=”https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/austin_job_large.jpg” alt=”austin_job_large” width=”130″ height=”200″ />Crossposted at By Common Consent Re-reading Job: Understanding the Ancient World’s Greatest Poem By Michael Austin, Dialogue Board Member Greg Kofford Books, 2014 $20.95 Academic approaches to […]
[…] that it can appear paradoxically creepy, Mormons are still perceived as strange and secretive. News outlets seemed downright eager to put “Mormon” and “polygamy” together in headlines, and many publications repeated […]
“God gives us a world in which we may borrow wisdom from others, but we also must learn through the exercise of free […]