Contralto
March 26, 2018In the interval after the mastectomy
before her head was a slick white egg,
she would color the gray roots of her dark
blanket-soft hair with drugstore dye.
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Present at the Beginning: One Woman’s Journey
March 26, 2018Dialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 99–193
On November 17,1985, many RLDS (now Community of Christ) congregations witnessed the sacrament of ordination to priesthood office.
Ordaining Women and the Transformation from Sect to Denomination
March 26, 2018Dialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 61–64
Over the past forty years the top leadership of the Community of Christ church (until recently the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ o f Latter -Day Saints) has gone through significant changes in religious thought. I have contended elsewhere that the decisive changes occurred in the 1960s.
The Mothers’ Antlers
March 26, 2018The mothers have antlers of their own, the eldest
Mother shall lead the rest, show them
How to do with food first of all, house is next,
And training young the last. The Mothers train
“Kingdom of Priests”: Priesthood Temple and Women in the Old Testament and in the Restoration
March 26, 2018Dialogue 36.3 (2003): 53-80
Compton considers priesthood as portrayed in Old Testament texts and how women are underrepresented in today’s discourse.
Inheritance
March 26, 2018I wear her name
and a two carat diamond
which, like a heavy rock of salt,
falls to the side between my fingers.
I’m sitting on a pink velvet chair
Saints for All Seasons: Lavina Fielding Anderson and Bernard Shaw’s Joan of Arc
March 26, 2018In September of 1993 Lavina Fielding Anderson was excommunicated from the LDS church for documenting and publishing instances of the church’s punishing treatment of Mormon intellectuals and feminists, as well as other instances of ecclesiastical abuse.
Does Justice Rob Mercy? Retribution, Punishment, and Loving our Enemies
March 26, 2018I have always loved the parables and teachings of Jesus about forgive ness and mercy, and I have pondered their meaning for many years. We could say that in these parables, parables such as the…
Nothing We Needed to Know
March 26, 2018And then, to show how it was done,
Mrs. Jackson, the Home Ec. teacher,
bent from the waist, the way you drink from a tap,
and demonstrated how to let the breasts
A Frank Analysis of a Troubling Legacy | Armand L. Mauss, All Abraham’s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
March 26, 2018Armand Mauss, professor emeritus of Sociology and Religious Studies at Washington State University, has produced the authoritative and definitive study of the evolution of Mormon conceptions of race and lineage. As a practicing Latter-day Saint,…