Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 3

Ordaining Women and the Transformation from Sect to Denomination

2003: William D. Russell, “Ordaining Women and the Transformation from Sect to Denomination” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 36 No. 3 (2003): 61-64.

Over the past forty years the top leadership of the Community of Christ church (until recently the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ o f Latter -Day Saints) has gone through significant changes in religious thought. I have contended elsewhere that the decisive changes occurred in the 1960s.