Excommunication and Finding Wholeness
April 24, 2021[…] 54.1 (Spring 2021): 69–79</i><br> Five years after my excommunication, I met and entered into a relationship with the man who is my husband to this day. We became a couple in 1991; we held […]
[…] 54.1 (Spring 2021): 69–79</i><br> Five years after my excommunication, I met and entered into a relationship with the man who is my husband to this day. We became a couple in 1991; we held […]
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[…] and get married, or I might not. Either way would be fine. I didn’t need to have the same life path as all of my friends and family. I realized that I am the […]
Helaman 1- 6; August 23: Daniel Becerra Daniel Becerra is an assistant professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University and a scholar of early Christianity. He holds secondary specialties in New Testament and in Greco-Roman […]
As a graduate student at the time of the 2016 presidential election, I felt the heightened tension of Utah’s vote and the ensuing schism as political and religious beliefs played out on a national […]
<i>Dialogue 52.4 (Winter 2019): 85</i><br>Such inconsistencies may cause some readers to question the credibility of the text. Upon observing doctrinal andprophetic variation within the Book of Mormon, some dismiss the book’s divinity
[…] well for Joseph Smith’s believers, then as well as now, but not so well for critics who seem certain natural abilities were responsible. For over 180 years, several secular theories have been advanced as explanations.
The emerging field of whiteness studies in the US asks some provocative questions: How do outsiders lay claim to citizenship? How do minorities shed their image as un-American? How do they, in other […]
<i>Dialogue 49.3 (Fall 2016): 75–88</i><br>Probably the most destabilizing piece of historical information most Mormons come across is Joseph Smith’s polygamy.
<i>Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 1–24</i><br> The November 2015 LDS handbook policy change that identified mem- bers who participate in same-sex marriages as “apostates” and forbade children in their households from receiving baby blessings or […]