Mother Goes to Cambridge: A Modern Lament
April 17, 2018I sat there on the bench in Lecture Block C at Cambridge University with a very real ache in my brain where my classical education should have been. It was a rare warm day in…
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Of Politics and Poplars
April 17, 2018The Lombardy poplars are almost gone now. This shouldn’t nag at me, but it does. They used to be everywhere in Utah, lining the edges of farms, marking a town’s boundaries, or marching down long…
Maggie Smith Shoots On Over
April 17, 2018On the morning the Challenger space shuttle exploded, Maggie shot on over. I’ve been thinking about both events as though they were connected, even though I know they aren’t. They were separated not merely by…
Burden or Pleasure? A Profile of LDS Polygamous Husbands
April 17, 2018Dialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 158–166
Despite what researchers have said over the years regarding for why men married plural wives, Embry argues that a significant portion of husbands married plural wives because of their religious beliefs.
Feliz Navidad
April 17, 2018No room at the inn,
For them, anyway.
It didn’t take ESP to read the situation.
Just avoiding unpleasantness later.
He had enough on his mind just then.
On Fidelity, Polygamy, and Celestial Marriage
April 17, 2018Dialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 138–154
England shares his reasons for why Joseph Smith introduced polygamy and then removed it as one of the commandments. England argues that polygamy was a faith testing experience which lead them to in his words “worthy to build God’s kingdom.”
Groping the Mormon Eros
April 17, 2018When Levi and I presented earlier versions of these papers at the 1986 Sunstone Symposium, the moment had already acquired an appropriately symptomatic quality by being given two titles: Levi’s too-brave or even brazen “In…
In Defense of a Mormon Erotica
April 17, 2018Despite my title, I do not intend to defend pornography, Mormon or otherwise. But I do intend to discuss Mormon attitudes toward erotica and suggest that a dearth of sexuality in Mormon literature may be…
Sheep near Sardine Canyon
April 17, 2018
Methods and Motives: Joseph Smith III’s Opposition to Polygamy, 1860-90
April 17, 2018Dialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 77–85
When Joseph Smith III preached his first sermon as a leader of the Reoganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Amboy, Illinois, on 6 April 1860, he expressed his unqualifed aversion to the Mormon doctrine of plural marriage.