Lavina Fielding Anderson

A Tractable Tract | Gladys Clark Farmer, Elders and Sisters

Writing a book of short stories/sketches about a group of missionaries in France is picking a hard door to knock on—missionary work is surrounded with ideals, taboos, and nostalgia—but Gladys Clark Farmer makes it swing…

Mary Fielding Smith: Her Ox Goes Marching On

I should preface these remarks by establishing two things. First, I am no blood relation to Mary Fielding Smith, although, like all of you, I proudly claim her for a spiritual sister; second, my subject…

Ministering Angels: Single Women in Mormon Society

Dialogue 16.3 (Autumn 1983): 68–69
I would like to discuss teh social experience of historical Latter-day Saint single women in the context of five questions: (1) Does she have an acceptable reason for being single? (2) Can she provide for her own economic security? (3) What place does she occupy in her family of origin? (4) Can she contribute to her community in a way that she will be rewarded for? (5) What was the emotinoal life of a single women in past generations? 

Making “The Good” Good for Something: A Direction for Mormon Literature

Ever since the classic triumverate of the good, the true, and the beautiful was set up as the literary ideal, the good—meaning the virtuous or moral—has had less success than either the true or the…

The Ambiguous Gift of Obedience

Reflections from Within: A Conversation with Linda King Newell and L. Jackson Newell

Disciplined Geography: An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon by John L. Sorensen

Twenty Years with Dialogue: To Give the Heart: Some Reflections on Dialogue

A Voice from the Past: The Benson Instructions for Parents

I must admit that the immediate reaction to the “Mothers” speech — largely negative in my immediate circle — caught me off guard. I was meeting with a group of women on the night that…

A Strenuous Business: The Achievement of Helen Candland Stark

The Grammar of Inequity

Dialogue 23.4 (Winter 1990): 83–96
This essay explores some of the strengths of deliberately choosing
to relate to our world with gender-inclusive language in three areas

Delusion as an Exceedingly Fine Art: Bones by Franklin Fisher

Hazardous Duty, Combat Pay: Working in the Primary: Jesus Wants Me for a …

The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology

Dialogue 26.1 (Spring 1993): 23–82
THE CLASH BETWEEN OBEDIENCE to ecclesiastical authority and the integrity
of individual conscience is certainly not one upon which Mormonism has
a monopoly. But the past two decades have seen accelerating tensions in
the relationship between the institutional church and the two overlapping
subcommunities I claim—intellectuals and feminists.

Women’s Place in the Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia of Mormonism

Freedom of Conscience: A Personal Statement

Leaders and Members: Messages from the General Handbook of Instructions

A Ministry of Blessing: Nicholas Groesbeck Smith

True to the Faith: A Snapshot of the Church in 2004

Candor, Craftsmanship, and a Worthy Subject : Edward L. Kimball, Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball