Introduction
Lester E. Bush Jr.Friday, June 9, 1978. A day not to be forgotten. Like the bombing of Pearl Harbor, or the assassination of President Kennedy, most Mormons will remember exactly where they were and what they were doing…
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Summer 1979
Friday, June 9, 1978. A day not to be forgotten. Like the bombing of Pearl Harbor, or the assassination of President Kennedy, most Mormons will remember exactly where they were and what they were doing…
Dialogue 12.2 (Summer 1979): 13–21
The editors of Dialogue in 1979 compiled the testimonies of a former slave, Samuel Chambers, who was a member of the church.
Dialogue 12.2 (Summer 1979): 22–36
Elijah Abel, a black man ordained to the priesthood, was restricted in his church participation starting in 1843, even though he was well respected by both members and leaders. Newell G. Bringhurst discusses why the priesthood and temple ban might have occured. One of the reasons was when the pioneers were crossing the plains, a man by the name of William McCary, who had Native American and African American ancestry, caused a lot of grief and trouble for both saints and the leaders of the Church.
Dialogue 12.2 (Summer 1979): 37–50
In recent years many RLDS Church members have been proud of the fact that the church has been ordaining blacks into the priesthood since early in its history. Sometimes they have made unfavorable comparisons between RLDS policy and that of their cousins in Utah who denied holy orders to black men and women until last year when half of the restriction was lifted.
On the Tuesday before the 1963 October General Conference, Mr. Stephen Holbrook called on me at the University to tell me that the local NAACP was planning a civil rights demonstration sometime during the coming…
On June 8, 1978, word of a revelation to President Spencer W. Kimball and the ruling councils abruptly removed one of Mormonism’s more uncomfortable teachings and relegated it to the archives. As we bade farewell…
When are the writings and Sermons of Church Leaders entitled to the claim of being scripture?
I assume the scripture behind this question is the declaration of the Lord in a revelation given through Joseph primarily to Orson Hyde, Luke S. Johnson, Lyman E. Johnson, and William E. M’Lellin, who were to engage in missionary work. After addressing a word first to Orson Hyde, the Lord continued:
Dialogue 12.2 (Summer 1979): 82–91
Any constitutional amendment unavoidably casts a shadow of uncertaintyover its future interpretation and implementation. The Fourteenth Amendment, for example, has far exceeded the originally perceived purpose—elevating thestatus of blacks—and has come to serve as a tool of justice for many oppressedpersons and groups.
The two figures cleverly depicted on the cover of the Autumn, 1978 cover of Dialogue are unquestionably among the most important individuals in the field of psychoanalysis. Both were trained in the medical profession and both considered their research and theoretical work to be scientifically grounded.
The dispensation of the fulness of times has brought a proliferation of books “written according to the word of God” such as Nephi and John the Revelator could not have begun to fathom. From the…
Because I spent one year of my life as an undergraduate student at a Nigerian University, the June 9, 1978 announcement by the LDS Church First Presidency ended a period of internal unrest, a trial…
The city was Lagos, Nigeria, in the early 1970s. The place was the upstairs cinder-block apartment of Sabath Umoh, branch president of the Lagos “Mormon” church. On the card table pulpit was a black, hard-cover…
Let me bring home your dark eyes
and the secret of their holiness,
your quick fingers and your fine
pride in the black tent they weave.
Here at my breast, my dark-eyed child,
Taste of your worth and sleep a while.
Under the tent of the black goat’s wool
Safe from the cold and the wind, be full.
The two figures cleverly depicted on the cover of the Autumn, 1978 cover of Dialogue are unquestionably among the most important individuals in the field of psychoanalysis. Both were trained in the medical profession and both considered their research and theoretical work to be scientifically grounded.
Only rarely does a piece of writing capture the imagination of both novice and professional alike. Even more infrequently does such a work begin as a Ph.D. dissertation or master’s thesis. Certainly the most renowned…
For years Latter-day Saints yearned for a one-volume history of the Church which could be recommended to members and non-members alike as factually sound and not so fervently partisan as to “turn off” the critical…
Mormons who believe feminism is deeply subversive will find confirmation in Marilyn Warenski’s Patriarchs and Politics. Her argument can be simply stated: Feminism and patriarchal religion are incompatible. Mormonism is a patriarchal religion. Therefore, there…
Latter-day Saints are fond of quoting a scripture from the Doctrine and Covenants that reads, “Seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom”—an injunction repeated with minor variation at least four times. All…
Most writing about the Church’s sacred architecture of the nineteenth century (mainly theses and dissertations) has been restricted to the study of a single temple and tends to be historical rather than critical. Laurel Andrew’s…
On first impression, Spencer Palmer’s new book may not appear promising. One wonders silently how even a man of Palmer’s talents could make a coherent whole from twenty-three such diverse chapters. Not only is there…
This book includes seven essays, divided into two groups. The first three essays, collected under the heading, “Death and Dying,” deal with a variety of practices, attitudes and beliefs on the significance of death and…
Confirmed scholars are a tenacious lot, and when a combination of learned men pool their genius great things occur. Such is this magnum opus. The product of over a quarter century of labored research, this…
The birth of modern science in the seventeenth century fostered an intellectual climate which favored the growth of Natural Theology. Conditions were such during this period that scientific and religious views complemented and supported mutual intellectual…