Mormon Conversions
August 26, 2018The songs mutate
like a virus in my blood:
“I Am a Child of
God,” “Firm As the Mountains
DiaBLOGue
Juanita Brooks and Fawn Brodie — Sisters in Mormon Dissent
August 26, 2018
Beautiful Naked Women
August 26, 2018Beautiful naked women turn up all over,
in California they hide behind redwoods,
in Paris they picnic on the grass.
My doctor sends me a postcard of a plump nude
A Spiritual Map for Singles | Carol Clark, A Singular Life: Perspectives For Single Women
August 26, 2018This slim, significant volume is to date the best of the self-help books published for LDS single women. It succeeds largely because of Carol Clark’s unique grasp of gospel principles as they relate to even…
Anxiously Engaged: Amy Brown Lyman and Relief Society Charity Work, 1917-45
August 26, 2018Dialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 83–153
Believing that a more
efficient approach could be used to the church’s advantage, he proposed
that the Relief Society organize a social service department where these
new techniques could be tested and implemented.
Saints of Song and Speech | Alice Parker, choral arrangements, The Mormon Pioneers
May 4, 2018Columbia Records, that national giant of a record company, has beat someone to the punch. To prove that not all good things about Mormons must originate in the West, Goddard Lieberson has produced another of…
Some Voices from the Dust | Ross T. Christensen, ed., Papers of the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on the Archaeology of the Scriptures
May 4, 2018Any volume with “fifteenth annual” in its title requires placement in historical and sociological context before it can be evaluated properly. Sponsor of this symposium is the 800-member University Archaeological Society. (The name was changed…
Preparation for the Kingdom | Milton V. Backman, American Religions and the Rise of Mormonism
May 4, 2018This book will satisfy an intellectual need which has long existed in the L.D.S. Church and among all those who wish to investigate the “apostasy” from the Early Christian Church and the course of religious…