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Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report
April 10, 2018Dialogue 27.1(Spring 1994): 1–72
Smith discusses the importance of plural marriage in Nauvoo to church history. He shows that after Joseph Smith passed away, Nauvoo polygamy numbers rose.
Jesus is Coming
April 10, 2018The tapping of the shower is
the insistent brush of reeds
along the Charles and the slap
of oars I’ve just left.
Marcus
April 10, 2018It is not that I miss you now
but I miss it—when I
swallowed your finger the first night
and restrained myself in deference to
Secrets under the Surface | Linda Sillitoe, Crazy for Living: Poems
April 10, 2018Just under the surface of the obvious lie the secrets. Linda Sillitoe sees, hears, tastes them, feels where they lead, trusts them, takes us along. It is never a perilous journey. Rather, it resounds with…
A Diminished Thing? | Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon, and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society
April 10, 2018The publication of Women of Covenant, during the Relief Society sesquicentennial year, gives us the first comprehensive history of a remarkable women’s organization. This account is part of the equally remarkable history of the LDS…
Faith, Hope, and Charity
April 10, 2018It seems to me that the whole difficulty of our friendship was reflected in our names. It wasn’t that we had feuding surnames—certainly no Capulets and Montagues—but in fact the conflict was more fundamental because…
If Mormon Women Have Had the Priesthood since 1843, Why Aren’t They Using It?
April 10, 2018Dialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 231–245
In the brief essay
which follows, I do not reassert the arguments supporting women’s right
to priesthood, but focus on certain problems raised by the assumption that
women have priesthood authority.
The Invisible Woman
April 10, 2018The invisible woman is angry.
Boy is she mad.
She took her books to the library last night
and last night she burned the library down.