Notes and Comments
July 17, 2024Taking Flanders Too Seriously | Merging Business and Religion | We Love the Americans, But . . . | An Uncasual Review of Williams
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Short Notices
July 17, 2024Wallace Alan Raynor, The Everlasting Spires: A Story of the Salt Lake Temple
Helen B. Gibbons, Saint and Savage
Ecumenical Cinema | Robert Wise, dir., The Sound of Music
July 11, 2024God is not dead in Hollywood. The phenomenal success of The Sound of Music means that nuns are in again, and two current movies give us a choice, according to side-by-side newspaper ads, of Rosalind…
Notes and Comments
July 11, 2024On Mormon Theology | Riding Herd (Excerpt from a Letter) | Production of Plays with Mormon Themes | Improving the Gospel Doctrine Class
Volume Art
July 3, 2024Listen to an interview about these pieces here.
Reconsidering Reconciliation
July 3, 2024Dear Editor,
I read with interest Robert A. Rees, “Truth and Reconciliation: Reflections on the Fortieth Anniversary of the LDS Church’s Lifting the Priesthood and Temple Restrictions for Black Mormons of African Descent” in the summer 2023 issue of Dialogue (56, no. 2).
My biography is much like Rees’s….
“They Have Received Many Wounds”: Applying a Trauma-Informed Lens to the Book of Mormon
July 3, 2024Dialogue 57.2 (Summer 2024): 5–40
This article will explain what trauma is and how to be trauma informed, describe a few examples from the Book of Mormon in which a sensitivity to trauma could reveal greater insights from the text, and argue for the importance of using a trauma hermeneutic. We conclude with an application of a trauma hermeneutic in religious settings and an argument for the importance of being aware of how scriptural trauma may interact with the potential trauma of readers.
Materializing Faith and Politics: The Unseen Power of the NCCS Pocket Constitution in American Religion
July 3, 2024Listen to an interview about this piece here. In 2014, Latter-day Saint painter Jon McNaughton painted a triumphal and patriotic, yet reverent, scene of Cliven Bundy on horseback, with one hand lifting an American flag…
Leadership, Retention, and US Culture in the LDS Church in Latin America and Europe
July 3, 2024The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a global church based in the United States. The cultural context of the Church as a top-down, global entity with centralized leadership necessarily interacts with local…
Eldridge Cleaver’s Spiritual Odyssey and Embrace of Mormonism
July 3, 2024Eldridge Cleaver, one-time Black Panther, author of the critically acclaimed best-selling memoir Soul on Ice, and notorious fugitive from justice, was the most famous African American to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…