Tonight I want to challenge some of the conventional axioms of Mormon religion and culture and to propose a more progressive Mormonism. Let me begin, however, with a tribute to my dear friend Eugene […]
Across centuries and cultures, the origin of the human soul has been a subject of deep interest and yearning, often finding wondrous expression in theology, philosophy, science, and art. Ruminating on the profound mystery […]
[…] the definition of Mormon womanhood, it seems to me that the boundaries of that community have shifted over the past almost two hundred years from being initially proscribed by the institution, in the early […]
According to his official history, that’s all Joseph Smith said to his mother after God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him while he prayed by himself in the woods. Whether or not […]
[…] be a wife. But I was eight years old, and in my mind, if all I really wanted from the future was a husband, then that must mean that I wanted to be a wife.”
<i>Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 45–50</i><br> “I am the mother of a queer son. I am also an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as a professor at […]
According to the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (hereafter, “the LDS church” or “LDS Mormonism”), Joseph Smith’s motivation to start a new religious movement began with a particularly difficult […]
[…] simply the profound experience of those who seek God. The man who blots out internal awareness in order to maintain to himself and to others the appearance of absolute certainty, who refuses to examine […]
[…] Missouri, Ohio, and Illinois—a conflict produced by the Mormons’ peculiar religious ceremonies, peculiar marriage institution, distinct economic order, and the unique lay priesthood hagiography; a second stage of conflict with nature, as the pioneers […]
[…] without the “law of stewardship,” which Joseph Smith promulgated in the very early revelation on the “United Order of Enoch” (Doctrine and Covenants, Section 42, Feb. 9, 1831). Indeed, Leonard Arrington’s socio-economic history of […]