Deadline: May 1st The relationship between The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its LGBTQ members has been shaped by evolving policies, theological discussions, and deeply personal experiences. From official church positions […]
[…] positive note: But at the local and communal level, the church is changing, prodded in part by online communities and connections. Some people are leaving the pews because of the church’s policies about LGBTQ […]
[…] and sleeping enough? During the twentieth-century, Church leadership and academics sought to intellectualize anything they could in order to justify it to the world. They wanted everything wrapped up in a neat narrative, like […]
[…] writing rules by incorporating elements like time travel, all while tackling profound themes of agency, chaos, and order through a distinctly Mormon lens. William Morris is the author of Dark Watch and Other Mormon-American […]
[…] Women organization. Introduced to Beehive Girls through an article in a Church magazine, Thatcher located their manual online and was enthralled by the full-bodied approach to growth in its antiquated list of requirements. They […]
[…] I’m afraid of stepping in the wrong spiritual direction. Sure, I know generally what to do in order to be “a good person”: Love other people. Treat them as I would have them treat […]
[…] Mormon–Black issue? I was dismayed, disheartened, and depressed. I feared that all the research I had done over the past three years was for naught. Indeed, his fifty-seven-page Dialogue article containing some 219 footnotes […]
[…] Dialogue Out Loud, Dialogue Journal editor Taylor Petrey interviews Margaret Olsen Hemming and HB Franchino-Olsen, authors of the essay “They Have Received Many Wounds: Applying a Trauma-Informed Lens to the Book of Mormon,” featured […]
On Mormon Theology | Riding Herd (Excerpt from a Letter) | Production of Plays with Mormon Themes | Improving the Gospel Doctrine Class
This took place back in the days when the city was small and its Jewish, dusty streets were trampled under the feet of the most magnificent, powerful empire on the face of the earth. This […]