<i>Dialogue 49.3 (Fall 2016): 75–88</i><br>Probably the most destabilizing piece of historical information most Mormons come across is Joseph Smith’s polygamy.
[…] from going to Primary, I am perpetually terrified of giving sacrament meeting talks. I even asked Penny to give this talk for me, but she said no because this pulpit is too big for her.
<i>Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 51–60</i><br> “Of course, I didn’t really want to be a wife. But I was eight years old, and in my mind, if all I really wanted from the future was […]
[…] LGBT youth suicides in the Mormon community has risen in the wake of the November 2015 handbook policy change that categorizes same-sex married couples as “apostates” and forbids baptism to children in same-sex married households.
[…] anyone who does?” The girl held up her luminous stone and used its light to look Emma over for a moment, taking in her bare feet, her worn dress, her dirt-streaked face. “Are you […]
Benjamin Franklin purportedly offered some counsel for those wanting to be remembered long after they are dead and buried: “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”Sage advice. But for many, if […]
[…] but the book attests the uniqueness of the L.D.S. synthesis by such observations as “most uncommon” (p. 6), “radical digression” (p. 36), and “basically at variance not only with traditional Christian theology… but with […]
[…] three miles were overflowed to various depths, from six inches to three or four feet, and frozen over, except in the main channels, with a coat of ice, which we had to break by […]
[…] is the representative man of Mormonism’s role in American social history. It is valid to deplore debates over the golden tablets, rampant (on both sides) since Alexander Campbell’s cutting Delusions and Henry Caswall’s patronizing […]
[…] is, worried that the students I counseled and read and philosophized with where I taught should reach for meaning for their lives and find no guts, worried in fact that I should somehow while […]