I am a divorced father with two beautiful children. Married for eleven years, I have been divorced for ten. I continue to experience the joys and responsibilities of fatherhood, I consider myself a member in…
During its first 158 years, Mormonism, like any other religious system, has developed its own theological and ritual structure with its own built-in defensive mechanisms. A fundamental part of this defensive infrastructure is a series…
I have no intention of practicing polygamy,
but I accept and will firmly maintain it as a
doctrine, and am in no way ashamed of it.
—Anthony Maitland Stenhouse
So wrote Anthony Maitland Stenhouse (no relation to T. B. H. Stenhouse), a Scot transplanted temporarily to the western Canadian wilderness and an ardent nineteenth-century proponent of polygamy.
Three turning points mark the early life of Eliza R. Snow: the 1826 publication of her first newspaper verse, her 1835 baptism as a convert to Mormonism, and her 1842 sealing as a plural wife…
Dialogue 23.1 (Spring 1990): 39–55
Few Brazilian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daySaints will forget 1978, the year when two events significantly changed the Church in this South American country.
you talk of breakaway stallions
with hooves poised to strike teeth,
years on long lean roads past Las Vegas
selling church pews down the valley.
Dialogue 23.1 (Spring 1990): 11–36
A history of Black LDS social groups and organizations. The Genesis Group gave African Americans a better chance to connect with fellow African Americans through frequent socials. The first group was founded in Salt Lake City. Even being based in Utah, they couldn’t depend on a lot of outside support from other members or Church leaders, which became isolating for them.
As a child in Willard, Utah, Verna Flake remembered a search party being called when someone had let the neighbors’ chinchillas out of their cage. In the end, fears that the exotic, expensive little animals…
The letters in this collection, ably edited and annotated, are neither literate nor consistently interesting. They lack informed perspective and only occasion ally throw any light on the larger questions of the times of which…