Brigham Young University made headlines in 2012 for a series of controversies that would be, to say the least, unusual on most college campuses: a student-led push for the university to sell caffeinated beverages […]
Dialogue 50.2 (Summer 2017): 1–52 “What do We know of God’s Will for his LGBT Children?: An Examination of the LDS church’s position on homosexuality” divides it up into a “doctrinal, moral, and empirical […]
[…] one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).The word world, having more than one meaning, might be taken to denote human society, particularly since […]
[…] assumptions surrounding his presumed lack of it, has been enlisted by followers and detractors alike in order to frame Smith’s life within the narratives of divinely-inspired prophet or deceptive fraud, perhaps most acutely in […]
[…] 49.4 (Winter 2016): 87–108 The history behind a letter that was written by missionary Jedediah Morgan Grant to Joseph Smith, which contained information about Susan Hough Conrad and her brief love writings with a […]
[…] toward the brothel stairway. “If I worked up there, I’d have a room to myself. I could buy nice clothes. But I can’t. I won’t.” Reeves stared at his feet. A stitched pattern decorated […]
[…] tithing that returns many fold in the hour of need, the talk of tithing as our best buy in insurance, or the distasteful joke about it as personal fire insurance; that we hear the […]
Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967): 19–40 In this historical analysis, Mauss argues that starting in the 1850s, the church started to deny priesthood and temple blessings to anyone who had even a trace of African ancestry.
[…] a week?” I persisted. “Oh, now I’m alone, I can do on two dollars.” “What can you buy for two dollars!” I was trying to divide our food bill by six. “I buy potatoes […]
[…] be answered by losing a half day’s work in attendance at court, and who is unable to buy a home in a desirable white suburb (even though he has the money) because he cannot […]