We will get to the violin playing. First, let’s talk about the dress. On May 17, 2015, the Mormon blogosphere erupted into controversy over the designer gown worn by dancing violinist and YouTube star Lindsey […]
[…] us. It was his story about Ellis Shipp, a polygamous pioneer woman who defied her husband in order to return to medical school. His scattershot references to things we had never heard of, like […]
Religious practice is shifting from churches to the internet in what some critics call a “post-denominational era.”One early commentator predicted that “the web would reduce us to a virtual community of believers practicing a […]
<i>Dialogue 51.4 (Winter 2018): 49–76</i><br>What of the Latter Day Saint movement that claimed to prophetically discern the times and seasons of these latter days and also boldly proclaimed that they were the restoration church?
<i>Dialogue 50.1 (Spring 2017): 183–192</i><br>I am concerned about the ways in which I see patriarchy swallow up the demands of feminism and use them against women. Each time we gain som
<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;