Editor’s note: In light of the Washington Post piece on “<a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-genesis-of-a-churchs-stand-on-race/2012/02/22/gIQAQZXyfR_story.html”>The Genesis of a church’s stand on race</a>” we bring back from the archives the famous article cited therein.
[…] comments on ritual and the temple were added by Ostler and McMurrin later. Some adjustment in the order of the questions and answers has been made in the interest of consolidating related comments. Paragraphing, […]
Keith Burns discusses the evolution of policies and approaches that LDS church leaders have engaged in the last decade. In this latest interview of #dialogueoutloud Burns sits down with Taylor Petrey to discuss the […]
<i>Dialogue 56.1 (Spring 2023): 27–55</i><br> <em>Enjoy an interview about this piece <a href=”https://www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/transcending-mormonism-transgender-experiences-in- the-lds-church-with-keith-burns/”>here</a>.</em> <br> Desiring to better understand how people are navigating these complex identity negotiations, I interviewed seven trans and/or gender nonconforming […]
<i>Dialogue 55.1 (Spring 2022): 69–98</i><br> Although the concept of Heavenly Mother is empowering for many women, the focus on God as a cisgender, heterosexual couple also limits who can see their own divinity reflected […]
[…] significant ways. Doctrinal harmonizers such as Joseph Fielding Smith and Bruce R. McConkie have tried to create order out of the chaos of this ongoing theological project, but the results are usually unsatisfactory because […]
<i>Dialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 1–33</i><br> Despite its alleged antiquity, jutting back centuries before the Common Era, and its predominant setting in the Americas, the Book of Mormon contains several Matthean and Lukan additions to […]
[…] Smoot “effectively owned Coltrin’s land, home, and life chances” (p. 46) as he presided over the United Order effort in Utah County which included Spanish Fork where Coltrin lived. Smoot thus allegedly used his […]
[…] Smoot “effectively owned Coltrin’s land, home, and life chances” (p. 46) as he presided over the United Order effort in Utah County which included Spanish Fork where Coltrin lived. Smoot thus allegedly used his […]
<i>Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 155–180</i><br>This article tells the impact of LDS racial teachings on a single family history, the Marshalls, from Alabama in the 19th c. to Filmore, Utah in the present.