Patchwork
April 13, 2018The fields south of Salt Lake
Must be old.
From the air, in October,
They lie barren, empty,
DiaBLOGue
Mormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: Ethnicity, Diversity, and Conflict
April 13, 2018When I was a child growing up in a Carbon County mining town in the 1920s, I would pass the Greek coffeehouses on Main Street after attending Greek school. Sitting inside were off-shift miners and…
Mormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: A Reorganized Church Perspective
April 13, 2018There was a time when one could identify a sort of “mainline” religious configuration in the United States.
Mormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: An Australian Viewpoint
April 13, 2018During a history of religion class I attended at Sydney University a few years ago, another student asked the lecturer when the Mormons first arrived in Australia. He didn’t know and, looking round, asked, “Does…
Mormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: Mormonism and the Challenge of the Mainline
April 13, 2018In some ways, Mormonism looks in 1991 very much mainline. Yet dis cussing the challenge of this new social status rests on two assumptions: that Mormonism actually is a mainline religion, and that as a…
Mormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: Viewing Mormonism as Mainline
April 13, 2018Applying the term “mainline,” or “mainstream,” or “oldline” religion to Mormonism may raise a few eyebrows. After all, doesn’t “mainline” refer to the older, once dominant Protestant religions? Moreover, the term “mainline” lacks precision. How…
Twentieth-Century Polygamy and Fundamentalist Mormons in Southern Utah
April 13, 2018Dialogue 24.4 (Winter 1991): 44–58
Driggs shares the story of how in between the First and Second Manifestos, polygamy was still happening in secret.
In Their Own Behalf: The Politicization of Mormon Women and the 1870 Franchise
April 13, 2018Dialogue 24.4 (Winter 1991): 75–96
IMMEDIATELY UPON THE PASSAGE of territorial legislation enfranchising Utah’s women in 1870, almost fifty years before the Nineteenth Amendment extended the vote to American women, arguments erupted between the Mormon and non-Mormon community over the reasons behind this legislation.
Book of Mormon Stories That My Teachers Kept From Me
April 13, 2018Dialogue 24.4 (Winter 1993):15–50
n fact, it may be no more than a kind of perversity that brings me to admit what I will tell you now, namely, that when it comes to the Book of Mormon, that most correct of books, whose pedigree we love passionately to debate and whose very namesakes we have, all of us, become, I stand mostly with Mark Twain.
Losing Lucy
April 12, 2018Just as we were meeting, she
Slid quick away—too far—
And I, surprised at sudden loss,
Ran leaping after her.