Darren Parry is the former Chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. Darren serves on the Board of Directors for the American West Heritage Center, in Wellsville, Utah, the Utah State Museum Board,…
Maxine Hanks lectures and writes on history, women’s studies and theology in Mormon studies and Christian liturgy. She did her bachelor’s in Gender Studies at the University of Utah, and her masters work in History at Arizona…
[…] such as; multiracial identity; gender and the female gaze in context of religion; and the nuance of human psychology that can be expressed through portraiture. Many of her portraits break the fourth wall with […]
HEATHER SUNDAHL is a writer and editor for the Utah Women and Leadership Project, the BYU ARTS Partnership, and helps run the Op-Ed Lab for Mormon Women for Ethical Government. She received a BA in…
[…] and clinical management have provided a rich environment for her foundational commitment toward understanding and improving the human condition. She is a writer and poet with numerous works published in literary journals and anthologies, […]
[…] Michigan Lansing Mission before enrolling at Brigham Young University where he earned a BS in Marriage, Family, Human Development with an emphasis in Family Life Education from BYU’s School of Family Life. He also […]
Alma 39-42 — August 2: Maxine Hanks Maxine Hanks lectures and writes on history, women’s studies and theology in Mormon studies and Christian liturgy. She did her bachelor’s in Gender Studies at the University of Utah,…
Dialogue Sunday Gospel Study July 5, 2020: Alma 23-29 Professor Michalyn Steele is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and joined the faculty of BYU Law School in 2014, following two years as a Fellow and…
Dialogue 18.4 (Winter 1984): 65–80
Shortly after the church was organized, one of Joseph Smith’s main priorities during his lifetime was preaching to the Native Americans, who he believed to be the descendants of the Lamanites.
Dialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 99–109
Reproductive gender essentialism claims exclude trans persons for their gender identity. However, these same arguments, when taken seriously, also exclude infertile and intersex women too. Such a strict definition of “man” or “woman” does not simply exclude trans folks but also any body not fulfilling its biological utility. After all, biological potential and utility is the basis of a biological sex assignment