The Weight of Priesthood
March 22, 2018I was eight years old one March Sunday. The chapel curtains were bright with the springtime sun, as if angels were standing outside. The church itself was new, built only a year or two before…
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The Remnant Church: An RLDS Schismatic Group Finds a Prophet of Joseph’s Seed
March 22, 2018Dialogue 38.3 (Fall 2005): 26–54
When the 1984 conference approved Section 156 , which also indicated that the soon-to-be-built temple in Independence would be dedicated to the pursuit of peace, it became clear that the largest “schism”—separation from the unity of the Church—in the history of the RLDS Church was in the making.
Identifying the Earliest Mormon Polygamists, 1841-1844
March 22, 2018Dialogue 38.3 (Spring 2004): 1–74
Bergera uses evidence from plural wives to show who some of the first polygamists were in the church.
Letter to the Editor
March 22, 2018Gary Huxford, Haitian Mormons
Larry Morris, Folklore Rebutted
About the Artist: William Kenneth Laursen
March 22, 2018Born in 1948, Bill Laursen grew up in Salt Lake City and Brigham City, Utah. He graduated from Utah State University in 1972 with a BFA degree in art and art education. While at Utah…
An Open Letter to the Dialogue Board
March 22, 2018I hope that you will not find an unsolicited letter presumptuous, but I wanted to give you my thoughts on what I see as Dialogue’s problems and some things it could do to improve. First, let me say I wish Dialogue well, and I want it to succeed. I am very heartened to see the appearance of important works on Mormonism in places like Oxford University Press or the Harvard Theological Review. However, while there may someday come a time when the publishing of Mormon studies can occur entirely outside the ghetto of wholly Mormon venues, that time has not yet come. Furthermore, for certain topics I don’t think that it will ever come. That being the case, I care a great deal about the health and public reputation of Mormon intellectual fora.
Tending the Desert | Alan K. Parish, John A. Widtsoe: A Biography
March 22, 2018We have waited five decades for a biography of one of our most prominent apostles, and I am grateful to Alan Parish for bringing the volume into existence. He is to be congratulated for returning…
The Un-Hagiography | Gregory A. Prince and Wm. Robert Wright, David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
March 22, 2018The term “hagiography” refers to writings indicating that an individual is worthy of sainthood. Chiefly produced by Catholics during the Middle Ages, hagiography takes many forms. The most common is the vitae—biographies that document the…
Between Suicide and Celibacy | Fred and Marilyn Matis and Ty Mansfield, In Quiet Desperation: Understanding the Challenge of Same-Gender Attraction
March 22, 2018It is difficult to know how to review this book, which is really two books loosely connected, although both deal with homosexuality and both share similar points of view. The first and shorter part is…
Family Tree
March 22, 2018Adam: The wind hissed in the branches,
green tongues
whispering
a secret I could
never peel open.