The history of empires and nation-states is often a chronicle of wars, as this sprinkling of names clearly evokes: Ghengis Khan, Attila the Hun, Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, William T. Sherman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, […]
[…] I don’t know who I am. I have nowhere to turn in the end, no place to call home.” His ribs were aching bitterly beneath their bandages, several of them fractured two weeks earlier […]
With the Utah War’s sesquicentennial commemoration now underway, it is appropriate to reexamine that campaign’s origins, conduct, significance, and historiography. This article’s purpose is to stimulate such probing. I hope to do so through […]
<i>Dialogue 44.4 (Winter 2011): 106–141</i><br> From Editor Taylor Petrey: “Toward a Post-heterosexual Mormon Theology” was actually the first major article I ever published. I did not know what to expect, but it ended up […]
<i>Dialogue 56.1 (Spring 2023): 27–55</i><br> <em>Enjoy an interview about this piece <a href=”https://www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/transcending-mormonism-transgender-experiences-in-the-lds-church-with-keith-burns/”>here</a>.</em> <br> Desiring to better understand how people are navigating these complex identity negotiations, I interviewed seven trans and/or gender nonconforming Mormons […]
[…] managed sex on a cot? Well, maybe on Mike’s big cot, the one Tom and Vin scoffingly call “Princess.” How old I am, Elaine thinks. Yesterday, in the late afternoon, when the others were […]
The ultimate fate of American minorities is to become tourist attractions. . . . But the tourist boom means the same thing in Utah that it means in Vermont, the same thing it means […]
[…] their own problems. This can perhaps be illustrated by considering attempts to deal with what we might call limit situations, confrontations with over whelming catastrophe or great loss. When pushed into the anguish of […]
[…] so to do by the mineral quack who was his superior in office. Every morning at sick call, those who were unable to travel reported themselves to the surgeon, not only to receive his […]
[…] forty-four, he joined the Mormons. Converted by Oliver Cowdery and Parley P. Pratt, he accepted a three-week call to accompany them on their mission to the Lamanites. The three weeks turned into ten months. […]