[…] the encumbering web of confusion and weakness that characterizes mortality—part of what causes humans to see the world as if “through a glass, darkly” (1 Cor. 13:12). For instance, revelations on missionary work suggest […]
<i>Dialogue 55.4 (Winter 2021): 1–50</i><br>While much has changed for women 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. […]
[…] was a favorite, a paraphrase of I Corinthians 1:27: “God has chosen the weak things of this world to confound the wise” (Gregg 1890, 37). Perhaps Harris saw something of himself in the passage. […]
[…] of its own virtually insoluble political and economic problems and how these may be solved by the world government of Christ’s millennial reign. However, the millennial reign will require, besides the powerful king ship […]
When the above notice appeared in the Improvement Era in September 1933, it did not seem out of place in a publication intended for the general church membership. In the same issue of the […]
<i>Dialogue 40.3 (Fall 2007): 11–41</i><br> These articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if […]
[…] by the feeling of relief, euphoria or resigned acceptance. There is a definite perception that your personal world is getting better. Winter is past, spring has arrived. Some experts label this the “promiscuous” stage […]
The idea for this panel sprang from last year’s western Pilgrimage reunion, an annual meeting of women. We were sitting around observing who’d become a Relief Society president and being amazed. We tried […]
[…] and demographic perspectives to provide an overview of the dynamics operating to shape the configuration of Mormondom—the world’s Latter-day Saint population—for the period 1950- 2020. First, we regionalize the highly uneven distribution of the […]
During the early 1840S, founding Mormon prophet Joseph Smith introduced members of his young church to the ordinances of baptism for the dead (1840), eternal marriage (1841), and eternal proxy marriage (1842). These ordinances, […]