My Mormon Grandmother
April 12, 2018“Another girl.”
Unheralded birth
Beginning nothing.
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The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives
April 12, 2018Dialogue 25.2 (Fall 1992): 75–96
The personal essay, unlike personal journals, letters, and oral histories, is not an artless form. It transforms the raw material of personal experience in the double crucible of carefully chosen language and the light of mature retrospection.
Sexual Hegemony and Mormon Women: Seeing Ourselves in the Bambara Mirror
April 12, 2018At first glance, people from a middle-class, educated, medically, technically, and industrially sophisticated country may be tempted to see the culture of a developing country as not merely different but as a polar opposite. We…
Thoughts on Mormonism in Latin America
April 12, 2018Over the last quarter century, the Church has experienced tremendous growth in Latin America and elsewhere in the so-called Third World, a relatively sudden surge that has received little scholarly attention (Grover n.d.). In the…
Coney Island Hymn: Shore
April 12, 2018They clap their hands together
and shout out
and sing the same song
Wilford Woodruff and the Mormon Reformation of 1855-57
April 12, 2018For about two years after the Mormon pioneers first began to enter the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, they devoted themselves to the dual jobs of developing the territory and promoting the interests of the…
The Wake of a Media Crisis: Guilt by Association or Innocence by Proclamation?
April 12, 2018On 4 January 1990, police following a tip dug a family of five from a common grave in a barn in Kirtland, Ohio. Dennis and Cheryl Avery and their three young daughters, hands, feet, and…
Utah’s Darkest Side | L. Kay Gillespie, The Unforgiven—Utah’s Executed Men
April 12, 2018Readers of L. Kay Gillespie’s exposition about Utah’s unforgiven should find it thought-provoking—at times, disturbingly so. The picture he paints here is of Utah’s darkest side: the deliberate brutishness and ugliness on both sides of…
The Administrative Role of the Presidency: The Founding Prophet: An Administrative Biography of Joseph Smith, Jr.
April 12, 2018Dialogue 25.3 (Fall 1992): 197–198
RLDS Church Archivist Ronald E Romig expected The Founding Prophet: An Administrative Biography of Joseph Smith, Jr. to be exclusively about Joseph Smith. Instead Maurice L. Draper who was both a member of the RLDS Quroum of the Twelve Apostles and the First Presidency, focused more on different adminstrative situations in the RLDS church.
A Modern Prophet and His Times | Thomas G. Alexander, Things in Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
April 12, 2018Thomas G. Alexander, professor of history at Brigham Young University and prominent scholar of Mormon studies, has completed his long-awaited biography of Wilford Woodruff. An important nineteenth-century Mormon leader, Woodruff served as fourth president of the Church of…