[…] Declaration, racism persists. Join us for an open and honest conversation as we explore why it took over 160 years for the Church to acknowledge past errors and denounce white supremacy. Together, we’ll discuss […]
[…] Eras Tour. His family hails from Idaho’s Snake River Valley. Now Ryan usually lives in Provo, Utah, where he annually competes in the PIE-oneer Day Pie Baking Contest. If you have suggestions on any […]
[…] LGBT youth suicides in the Mormon community has risen in the wake of the November 2015 handbook policy change that categorizes same-sex married couples as “apostates” and forbids baptism to children in same-sex married households.
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Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 51–60
“Of course, I didn’t really want to be a wife. But I was eight years old, and in my mind, if all I really wanted from the future was […]
[…] Space (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Russell M. Nelson, “The Gathering of Scattered Israel,” Oct. 200 6; Quentin L. Cook, “Lamentations of Jeremiah: Beware of Bondage,” Oct. 2013; Russell M. Nelson and Wendy […]
[…] in the Church over the last half-century, much remains the same. Women consistently make up less than 3 percent of quotations in general conference. They are still described in terms of their appearance and […]
Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2013):188–206The scripture I have in mind, of course, is the Book of Mormon. What follows is a Gentile’s appreciation—even recommendation—of this well-known but largely unread example of worldclass scripture.
Dialogue 45. 3 (Fall 2013):138–177
In this paper, I argue that this preoccupation with structural collapse legitimizes a critical consideration of the way that language functions in the book, rendering the Book of Mormon particularly […]
Dialogue 8. 3/4 (1973): 43–73
Ever since his great synthesis, Darwin’s name has been a source of discomfort to the religious world. Too sweeping to be fully fathomed, too revolutionary to be easily accepted, […]