This essay originally responded to a call in the announced theme for the 2009 Annual Conference of the Association for Mormon Letters: “Proving Contraries.” It explicitly honors, as the AML Conference theme implicitly honored, […]
[…] the obituary, knowing deep down that my visibility in the task, my step towards him outside patriarchal order, would have threatened, terrified him still. In a similar manner, I, and women like me, seem […]
Dialogue 52.3 (Fall 2019): 62–83 De Schweintiz documents how students at BYU still hear racist reasons for the priesthood/temple ban in classes, missions, Gospel Doctrine, sacrament meeting talks and even in books published by […]
[…] irrelevant. Only pedants and fools think that they can stand in the path of linguistic evolution and order language itself to stop doing what it wants to do. Well, pedants, fools, and the Académie […]
Dialogue 52.3 (Fall 2019): 1–18 Shields argues that if you deny or dismiss Sidney Ridgon’s contributions to the early church, then the scripture canon during this time would need to be reinterpreted.
Dialogue 52.1 (Spring 2019): 17–32 I do not lend the weight of truth to the language of ritual. Such language is symbolic. But even in the context of symbolism, language that is so preferential […]
[…] being a force for unity. Earlier this fall, President Russell M. Nelson called for members to use the Church’s full name rather than its nickname “Mormon.” Those of us in the broader Mormon studies […]
[…] Mormonism, publishing scholarship, poetry, art and fiction on the Latter-day Saint experience. Published quarterly in print and online, the journal encourages a variety of viewpoints to foster artistic and scholarly achievement. Learn more Call […]
Come to the incredible salon/fundraiser sponsored by the Mormon Women Project this Saturday, November 5th at 6:00pm, at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in SLC, with the theme: “Crafting A Deliberate Life: Making Choices […]
[…] published my essay entitled “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview”and forty years since Official Declaration 2 ended the priesthood/temple ban. It seems like a good time to take stock of where we are: what […]