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Volume 18, No. 3

Fall 1985

Articles/Essays

LDS Women and Priesthood: Scriptural Precedents for Priesthood

Melodie Moench Charles

Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 15–20
I have heard many LDS women approach the issue of women and the priesthood by protesting that they do not want to hold the priesthood because they have no interest in passing the sacrament or performing some other ecclesiastical duty. I will venture a guess that many men who have the priesthood do not particularly want to hold it either, and that some of them also have no interest in passing the sacrament. But the reluctance of some men would hardly be a good reason to prevent all men from holding the priesthood.

LDS Women and Priesthood: The Historical Relationship of Mormon Women and Priesthood

Linda King Newell

Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 21–32
While an examination of that history leaves unanswered the question of women’s ordination to the priesthood, the historical overview of LDS women’s relationship to priesthood suggests a more expansive view than many members now hold.

LDS Women and Priesthood: An Expanded Definition of Priesthood: Some Present and Future Consequences

Margaret Wheatley

1985: Meg Wheatley-Pesci, “LDS Women and Priesthood: An Expanded Definition of Priesthood: Some Present and Future Consequences,” Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 35 – 42. In seeking to predict what might occur in the Church if priesthood were extended to women, it is helpful to focus attention on some of these organizational dynamics.

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Government-Sponsored Prayer in the Classroom

Robert Riggs

Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo

Richard Van Wagoner

Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 67–83
Van Wagoner defines polyandry as having two or more husbands at the same time. He identifies women who ended up marrying members of the Twelve or Joseph Smith while they were were already married to their own husband

Women’s Response to Plural Marriage

Kahlile Mehr

Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 84–98
Mehr shares stories of polygamy in late 19th century and early 20th century. He especially focused on LDS women’s opinions of polygamy when they entered into polygamous relationsips.

Mothers and Daughters in Polygamy

Jessie L. Embry and Martha Sonntag Bradley

Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 99–107
An analysis of what the individual wives’ roles are in the 19th century among plural marriages. Embry and Bradley make the argument that the daughters in a polygamous relationship pay attention to how their own mom is doing, which determines whether or not when they are older they enter into a polygamous relationship.

Volume 18, No. 3

Contents

Articles/Essays

LDS Women and Priesthood: Scriptural Precedents for Priesthood

LDS Women and Priesthood: The Historical Relationship of Mormon Women and Priesthood

LDS Women and Priesthood: An Expanded Definition of Priesthood: Some Present and Future Consequences

Government-Sponsored Prayer in the Classroom

Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo

Women’s Response to Plural Marriage

Mothers and Daughters in Polygamy

Exiles for the Principle: LDS Polygamy in Canada

Fiction

The Black Door

The Only Divinely Authorized Plan for Financial Success in This Life or the Next

Personal Voices

Soul-Making, or Is There Life Before Death?

Reflections on the Restoration

Poetry

One Year

Lightning Barbs

Reviews

In Silence She Speaks: Not in Vain by Susan Evans McCloud

Faithful History: The Heavens Resound: A History of the Latter-day Saints in Ohio, 1830-1838 by Milton V. Backman, Jr.

Fast and Loose Freemasonry: Mormonism and Freemasonry