<i>Dialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 60–69</i><br>THE QUESTION of whether worthy women could be or ought to be ordained to the LDS priesthood has not, until recently, been considered seriously in the LDS community.
<i>Dialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 48–59</i><br>I smiled wryly at the cartoon on the stationery. The picture showed a woman standing before an all-male ecclesiastical board and asking, “Are you trying to tell me that God […]
[…] bishopric. There was seldom a specific mandate of authority or responsibility. Two organizational innovations tried to bring order to this untidy system. The first was an attempt to divide responsibilities along priesthood lines. The […]
[…] the state ideology, pancasila, allowed Christianity to become a viable alternative in the Indonesian situation. The New Order’s clarification of pancasila, thus continuing to guarantee religious freedom, opened the door even wider for Indonesians […]
The Doctrine and Covenants contains extremely specific instructions concerning marriage for men: In the celestial glory there are three heavens or degrees;
[…] range of freedom is left large, and arbitrary divine interference with that freedom is kept minimal, in order that I may grow. Were God’s hand always upon my shoulder, or his Iron Rod always […]
[…] Saturday and needed to run to the parts store, he should change into his pastor’s clothes in order to maintain “pastoral dignity”; and he should route the church telephone to his home and answer […]
<i>Dialogue 27.1(Spring 1994): 1–72</i><br>Smith discusses the importance of plural marriage in Nauvoo to church history. He shows that after Joseph Smith passed away, Nauvoo polygamy numbers rose.
[…] want to ask is this: Can men accept women as spiritual equals when scripture presents the patriarchal order as divine? Can men identify with women when women are too often absent or represented only […]
[…] and the noun re’sit (“beginning”). The subject of the sentence, ‘elohim (“God”), is preceded in the word order by the verb bam’ (“created”). There are two objects of the verb, each preceded by the (untranslatable) […]