Professor Andrea Radke-Moss provides a fascinating overview of sister missionary service in the history of the church over at Juvenile Instructor, which proves to spotlight why Saturday’s announcement was truly revolutionary.
Dialogue author and former Associate Editor Richard H. Cracroft passed away last week and in honor of his life.
In a blog post for the Huffington Post, Samuel Brown offers up three points that he explains often, and most recently by John G. Turner in a New York Times piece “are commonly misunderstood.”
Early this week, scholar John Turner presented an opinion piece in the New York Times on “Why Race Is Still a Problem for Mormons.”
Longtime Dialogue friend and board of directors member Kevin Barney provides his “Reflections of a Blogger” after 6.5 years and 402 posts on By Common Consent.
“Masturbation is not sinful behavior in of itself nor is it a transgression. God has created us as emotional, spiritual, intellectual and sexual beings. He has created these capacities in the context of both relational purpose and self-sufficiency.”
This week a controversial article (with an even more controversial cover) on “How Mormons Make Money” broke at Businessweek. Two Mormon media voices provided measured responses, spotlighting the tension between Mormon scriptural injunctions and Mormon business practices, but showcasing important subtler nuances.
Editor Kristine Haglund joins fellow panelists Jordan Kimball and Katie Davis Henderson in a new Mormon Matters podcast on “Growing Up Mormon–and Fearless.”
A section from the epic theological poem “My Turn on Earth” featured at By Common Consent and “found” by guest editor Steven Peck:
Mormon scholars representing a myriad of subjects congregate at the new blog Peculiar People, with consistently impressive results. Recent offerings include Dialogue contributor Taylor Petrey asking “Is Mormonism Ridiculous?”