Merina Smith’s book continues the fascination with Nauvoo polygamy. Other authors have considered such topics as Joseph Smith and his wives, the experience of those entering polygamy in Nauvoo (as well as the numbers […]
My husband grew up backpacking, and it was one of the conditions of our marriage that I would learn to backpack too. I do it now, and occasionally even enjoy it, but it’s definitely […]
[…] must be achieved through institutionalizing female ordination. In fact, McBaine doesn’t foresee any ready changes to the order of Church governance. Women at Church is her call for the faithful to uncover ways to […]
Last spring the daughter of my best friend from graduate school asked if I would speak at her Stake Standards Night. Sophie (whom her mother and I used to call “the Queen of the […]
Dialogue 47.4 (Winter 2014): 85–90 Defenses of the male-only LDS priesthood generally pursue a combination of three approaches: ground the practice in ancient scripture, secure it in Restoration history and tradition, or justify it […]
Dialogue 48.1 (Spring 2015):169–177 In this “From the Pulpit,” Jared Hickman discussed the self-confessed weaknesses of multiple authors in the Book of Mormon, indicating that the text is not the literal word of God. […]
[…] outside an LDS bookstore beside the historical site. Tourists all, they move in a kind of chaotic order, juggling strollers, cameras, shopping bags, and sunburns. Their whiteness—or, more accurately, pinkness—shocks him, so used he […]
[…] and fresh food. She wanted to say that she wasn’t sorry that they didn’t have money to buy salad, only that she was sorry that she hadn’t thought to buy at least a head […]
[…] to you today as your bishop, but also a responsibility that deeply humbles me. I pray that the Spirit will be with me. First, let me address one of the most important groups in […]
David Conley Nelson’s Moroni and the Swastika, although based on the author’s doctoral dissertation, is not at heart a scholarly book. It is, rather, a polemical work dressed up in academic regalia. While its […]