Exiles for the Principle: LDS Polygamy in Canada
April 18, 2018Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 108–116
Embry describes the role that polygamy played in the forming of Cardston Canada, both Pre-Manifesto and Post Manifesto.
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Mothers and Daughters in Polygamy
April 18, 2018Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 99–107
An analysis of what the individual wives’ roles are in the 19th century among plural marriages. Embry and Bradley make the argument that the daughters in a polygamous relationship pay attention to how their own mom is doing, which determines whether or not when they are older they enter into a polygamous relationship.
Women’s Response to Plural Marriage
April 18, 2018Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 84–98
Mehr shares stories of polygamy in late 19th century and early 20th century. He especially focused on LDS women’s opinions of polygamy when they entered into polygamous relationsips.
Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo
April 18, 2018Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 67–83
Van Wagoner defines polyandry as having two or more husbands at the same time. He identifies women who ended up marrying members of the Twelve or Joseph Smith while they were were already married to their own husband
Government-Sponsored Prayer in the Classroom
April 18, 2018During its 1984 session the United States Senate fell eleven votes short of the two-thirds majority required to endorse a constitutional amendment allowing government-sponsored prayers in public schools (S. J. Res. 1983). This was the…
LDS Women and Priesthood: An Expanded Definition of Priesthood: Some Present and Future Consequences
April 18, 2018Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 35–42
In seeking to predict what might occur in the Church if priesthood were extended to women, it is helpful to focus attention on some of these organizational dynamics.
LDS Women and Priesthood: The Historical Relationship of Mormon Women and Priesthood
April 18, 2018Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 21–32
While an examination of that history leaves unanswered the question of women’s ordination to the priesthood, the historical overview of LDS women’s relationship to priesthood suggests a more expansive view than many members now hold.
LDS Women and Priesthood: Scriptural Precedents for Priesthood
April 18, 2018Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 15–20
I have heard many LDS women approach the issue of women and the priesthood by protesting that they do not want to hold the priesthood because they have no interest in passing the sacrament or performing some other ecclesiastical duty. I will venture a guess that many men who have the priesthood do not particularly want to hold it either, and that some of them also have no interest in passing the sacrament. But the reluctance of some men would hardly be a good reason to prevent all men from holding the priesthood.
From Mold Toward Bold? | A Woman’s Choices: The Relief Society Legacy Lectures
April 18, 2018The sight of seventeen venerable women smiling confidently from the dust jacket is intimidating. I know I’d better like this book. Please let me like this book! Well, it did prove motivating. One day after…
Faithful Fiction | Levi S. Peterson, ed., Greening Wheat: Fifteen Mormon Short Stories, Douglas H. Thayer, Summer Fire, and Donald R. Marshall, Zinnie Stokes, Zinnie Stokes
April 18, 2018Good fiction strikes me with that same mysterious combination of exhilaration and grief that comes from new knowledge, from new visions that replace the dear old ones. Because they are good fiction, I recommend that…