The Ward Teacher
April 18, 2018On the first Sunday after my fourteenth birthday, I was given the responsibility to watch over the Church and see that all the members did their duty, and also to prevent iniquity, hardness with each…
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William B. Smith: The Persistent “Pretender”
April 18, 2018William B. Smith was a difficult man. Like so many who feel denied power and recognition, he was probably best described as being his own worst enemy. Certainly he could not be stereotyped as the…
Crying Change in a Permanent World: Contemporary Mormon Women on Motherhood
April 18, 2018Dialogue 18.2 (Summer 1985): 116–127
Women in the Mormon Church are encouraged toward traditional roles and attitudes that discourage personal, familial, and societal change. The ideal female role is that of a non-wage-earning wife and mother in a nuclear family where the husband is the provider and the woman’s energies are directed toward her family, the Church, and perhaps community service.
Making “The Good” Good for Something: A Direction for Mormon Literature
April 18, 2018Ever since the classic triumverate of the good, the true, and the beautiful was set up as the literary ideal, the good—meaning the virtuous or moral—has had less success than either the true or the…
An RLDS Reformation? Construing the Task of RLDS Theology
April 18, 2018Dialogue 18.2 (Summer 1985): 92–113
During the last twenty-five years, Reorganized Latter Day Saints have struggled to discover what it means to be the body of Christ in the modern world.
The Alienation of an Apostle from His Quorum: The Moses Thatcher Case
April 18, 2018In 1896 Moses Thatcher, a highly capable member of the second I highest ruling body of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was relieved of his office of apostle. Since this action came…
Ethical Issues in Reproductive Medicine: A Mormon Perspective
April 18, 2018Dialogue 18.2 (Summer 1985): 42
For this reason, I would suggest that in theory—and sometimes even in practice—”Mormonism” typically sees frontiers in medicine such as those we have discussed as opportunities for expanding its perspective rather than as occasions for making official judgments.
The Godmakers Examined
April 18, 2018The Godmakers, which was first shown in 1983, was produced largely through the efforts of Edward Decker, who is currently international director of Saints Alive in Jesus. The film took three years to make at a cost of approximately $250,000. To pay for the film, Decker personally borrowed $65,000, obtained $50,000 from a group of investors and raised the remaining amount from donations.
Fast and Loose Freemasonry | Mervin B. Hogan, Mormonism and Freemasonry: The Illinois Episode, and Mervin B. Hogan, The Involvement of Freemasonry with Mormonism on the American Midwestern Frontier
April 18, 2018Mervin B. Hogan, a prolific expositor on the subject of Mormonism and Freemasonry, is apparently gaining some reputation among Mormons and Freemasons alike for “impeccable” and “peerless” scholar ship. (See Jerry Marsengill, Introduction, The Official…
Faithful History | Milton V. Backman, Jr., The Heavens Resound: A History of the Latter-day Saints in Ohio, 1830-1839
April 18, 2018Milton Backman, a professor of Church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University, has written a history of Mormon ism in Ohio in the 1830s. He appears to have consulted virtually all of the primary…