The speed with which photographs of the Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri were published once they came into the possession of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a gratifying contrast to […]
<i>Dialogue 8.1 (Spring 1973): 11–68</i><br>Lester Bush’s landmark article tells the most comprehensive history of the church’s teachings on race and priesthood, destabilizing the idea that it originated with Joseph Smith or had been consistently taught.
<i>Dialogue 10.2 (Summer 1977): 12–46</i><br> The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing […]
[…] its teachings. Although we are each a unique blend of our own qualities and experiences, we show order in our development as well, an order patterned in recurrent constellations of traits. The Church actively […]
[…] Hof mann discovered an interest for a particular document he might create and ascertained specific information in order to assure its fit into a historical context. One major investor told Hofmann he would like […]
[…] me, cannot be sanctified (D&C 101:4-5)” (CES 1980-81, 79). The student is thereby instructed that God, in order to test those who would be members of his Church, may command and cause severe physical […]
[…] at the feed store. She had worn a shirt open at the collar today. Filling out his order, she leaned forward and he could see where her breasts flattened against each other. She had […]
The idea for this panel sprang from last year’s western Pilgrimage reunion, an annual meeting of women. We were sitting around observing who’d become a Relief Society president and being amazed. We tried […]
[…] for arbitrarily deciding to damn some persons. The Book of Mormon The Book of Mormon reversed the order of states of grace posited by Augustine. In the Book of Mormon, humankind lacked moral freedom before […]
[…] a member’s livelihood, good name, temple recommend, or even a well-earned pension after years of service in order to silence an alternate voice, to compel obedience, or force compliance with a certain leader’s personal […]