Among Latter-day Saint academics, few have achieved the professional stature or exerted the intellectual influence of Richard Lyman Bushman. Gordon Wood, a member of the blue-ribbon panel featured here and a scholar with few […]
Dialogue 44.4 (Winter 2011): 106–141 From Editor Taylor Petrey: “Toward a Post-heterosexual Mormon Theology” was actually the first major article I ever published. I did not know what to expect, but it ended up […]
[…] Saint who studies sustainability, I have pondered the spiritual practices and beliefs that sustain our faith community over the long term. Prayer, scripture study, worship, and sacred ordinances are core practices that sustain the […]
[…] the division of the ward and the creation of a branch for ‘those people.’” Martins warned: “In order to avoid the disintegration of local LDS communities the LDS Church must be on the watch […]
[…] church leaders discussed how they asked for revelation to change the policies; others taught it was the order of heaven and that it would never change. And then in 1978, it did. In the […]
“Pretty girls don’t buy cocaine,” Greta says and laughs as she walks out the front door. My hands and face sting as I stand frozen in the entryway and hear her start the car. […]
[…] the spiritual strength they received from participation: “Brother Elden talked about fasting in the first of the Order. He likened our bodies to a blacksmith shop. When things come in to be fixed we […]
Dialogue 50.2 (Summer 2017):55–88 Maintaining a conviction of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon is no easy task in the era of DNA studies, archaeological excavations, and aggressive attacks by evangelical Protestants. Latter-day […]
Bishop warned Brock Hartman ahead of time. “They’ll ask for a food order.” He opened a desk drawer and took out a binder filled with requisitions for the storehouse. “But they have a decent […]
[…] Brigham Young declared that he was president of the Twelve at a meeting of the Church United Order in the fall of 1875, since he was the only one whom the Lord had acknowledged […]