heavy seeds
August 29, 2023. . . they buried the weapons of war, for peace. Alma 24:19 bury seeds these with covenant gritshrill songs on our lips as we circle the pit clank seeds clanging as we cry-file bybeg,…
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She Simply Wanted More: Mormon Women and Excommunication
August 29, 2023Dialogue 56.3 (Fall 2023): 109–123
As an adult, I learned that 1993 represented a kind of death for members of the Mormon studies community. Since the 1970s, Latter-day Saint women had been challenging the limited role the Church provided for female spirituality.
Mormon Dissent in the Age of Fracture
August 29, 2023When fifteen hundred progressive Mormons attended Sunstone Symposium in August 1992, they did so in protest. The symposium had become a center point in the growing battle between Latter-day Saint leaders and activists, especially as…
The September Six and the Evolution of Mormon Magisteria
August 29, 2023In 1997, Stephen Jay Gould published a short essay aimed at limning the conflict between science and religion, particularly with respect to the question of evolution as the mechanism of generating life on Earth. In…
The September Six and the Lost Generation of Mormon Studies
August 29, 2023I was a high school senior in September 1993, when Lavina Fielding Anderson, Avraham Gileadi, Maxine Hanks, D. Michael Quinn, Paul Toscano, and Lynne Kanavel Whitesides were disfellowshipped or excommunicated from the Church of Jesus…
A Question of Authority
August 29, 2023I was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on September 25, 1993, almost immediately after Lavina Fielding Anderson was forced out of it.[1] Her stake disciplinary council had convened on September…
ROUNDTABLE: CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON THETHIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SEPTEMBER SIX
August 28, 2023In September 1993, six people were excommunicated or disfellowshipped from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The events were widely covered in news media. Lynne Kanavel Whitesides, Avraham Gileadi, Paul Toscano, Maxine Hanks,…
So Then They Are No More Twain, But One: An Exploration of Liminality
June 21, 2023When the curtain rises on the Judeo-Christian garden story, we encounter a series of in-between or liminal phenomena: 1) Adam and Eve, who represent neither fallen humanity nor exalted deities, who “have no status, property,…
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June 21, 2023
Letter to the Editor: Another Perspective on Levi Peterson
June 21, 2023Dear Editor, After reading Melissa Leilani Larson’s review of Levi Peterson’s short story collection, Losing a Bit of Eden (“The Promise and Limitations of Working-Class Male Protagonists,” Dialogue, Summer 2022), I would like to offer…