Greg: I’d like to start by talking about the Community of Christ (and its predecessor, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) in the early twentieth century. My recollection is that […]
[…] I grew up being told that Mormons avoided ritual because it connoted empty practice and vulgar symbolism. The truth is, however, that Mormon temple worship is among the richest symbolic systems of worship in […]
Nearly thirty-five years ago, Merrill Bradshaw wrote: “It seems almost unbelievable that after all these years of the development of Mormon thought we still have no genuine Mormon aesthetic theory.”Such a statement might initially […]
[…] I’m Brother Jake.” An image of a smiling white man in white shirt and tie flashes across the screen as I watch yet another edition of the “Brother Jake” YouTube video channel. Brother Jake, […]
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 […]