…clear exactly what Apostle Smith had in mind, but if he meant cases in which there were more Caucasian grandparents, for instance, than Negro, he would have been much more…
…publication of its three installments and the publication of the Book of Mormon, scores of biblical commentators and other defenders of holy writ were replying to Paine. The vast majority…
…supremacist interpretations of the restrictions long after 1978. At a 1980 devotional at the University of Utah’s LDS Institute of Religion, for instance, Berrett expressed his “shock when in June…
…Lee Weiss (@amberlieves), Instagram, June 14, 2020. [36] Heather Ruttan (@ettakay.art), Instagram, Apr. 27, 2020. [37] Franzoni Thorley (@florafamiliar), Instagram, July 29, 2020. [38] Richard Olagunju, email discussion with author,…
…option turns up here and there in LDS scripture and thinking—for instance, in God’s command for Nephi to kill Laban and in Joseph Smith’s purported letter to Nancy Rigdon, attempting…
…gender internal to Mormon thought. I won’t rehearse the arguments in detail here, but I thank Valerie Hudson Cassler’s work on the atonement as one among many instances that showed…
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…(around the tenth century B.C.E.), Asherah came to be viewed as the consort, not of El, but of Yahweh. For instance, an inscription at Kuntillet ’Ajrud in the northern Sinai,…
…the union of man and woman was a common teaching in this period. For instance, in 1853 Orson Pratt affirmed, “No man can be ‘in the Lord,’ in the full…
…installments are found here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. I do not list every single book and article from 2016, but I do highlight those I found most…