Dialogue 55.3 (Fall 2022): 75-106 As a contribution to the larger project of examining the King James Bible’s influence on The Book of Mormon, this essay focuses on several aspects of the problem of […]
Dialogue 52.1 (Spring 2019): 45–76 A Feminist Family Home Evening discussion with Maxine Hanks regarding women in the church as seen through temple theology.
[…] by wonderful Mormon folk in 1980s Davis County, Utah. I was finding my way to faith in the miserable, wet poverty of southern Louisiana, but it was a faith inflected by my lifelong skepticism […]
Dialogue 1.4 (Spring 1966): 15–42 Not very long after the death of Sidney Rigdon, the influential preacher and compatriate to Joseph Smith in the first years of the Church, his son, John Wickliffe Rigdon, […]
[…] 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 Holy Ghost [rested] upon [him] in great power, while […]
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[…] did not complain. Although it wasn’t specific counsel to join, he turned everything he owned into the Order and worked long and hard to get the coal and fuller’s earth from the hillsides. Timber […]
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[…] “Charisma, Structure, and Contested Authority: The Social Construction of Authenticity in Mormonism,” in Religion and the Social Order, Vol. 6 in The Issue of Authenticity in the Study of Religions, edited by David G. […]