<i>Dialogue 51. 3 (Fall 2018): 131–153</i><br>This essay provides an outline for how to have a more robust intrafaith dialogue about race among members of the LDS church. Using principles from Martin Luther King, Jr. […]
[…] we generally refer to as objective,” and that they must be interpreted as “metaphorical communications” (1983, 5- 6). Classifying the New Mormon History If the traditionalists are in error in calling the New Mormon […]
<i>Dialogue 55.1 (Spring 2022): 69–98</i><br> Although the concept of Heavenly Mother is empowering for many women, the focus on God as a cisgender, heterosexual couple also limits who can see their own divinity reflected […]
[…] basis of conduct reported in Mormon scripture some spirits were good and some spirits were evil (Abraham 3:22-28; Doctrine and Covenants 29:36). Is the reported fact of evil conduct grounds for a doctrine of […]
On April 9, 1852, Brigham Young rose once again to address a session of general conference. He intended to preach several discourses, he said, and as the Deseret News observed the following week, “the […]
[…] permanent virgin, in spite of several biblical references to Jesus’ brothers and sisters (Matt. 13:55-56; Mark 3:31, 6:3). Later she became a postpartum virgin, out of unease that she may have retained the physical […]
[…] and surrounding regions, this church apparently disintegrated in the thirtieth year after Christ’s birth (see 3 Nephi 6:14), and its successor was not organized until after Jesus had ascended into heaven a second time. […]
<i>Dialogue 50.1 (Spring 2017): 167–180</i><br>This tendency to rewrite Relief Society history continued from the 1850s into the 1990s.
[…] now vocalizes this as Yahweh). According to P’s version, this name was first revealed to Moses (Ex. 6:3), and any use before then would be an anachronism. The liberal use of the name Yahweh […]
For most of us, there is little doubt that science was victorious in its centuries-long warfare with theology. From Galileo—kneeling in the robes of a penitent criminal before his Inquisitors, pleading for mercy […]