[…] served as the church president. He had clout; he had stature. Mormons listened. They still listen. In order to illuminate Benson’s conspiracy theories, it helps to frame what a conspiracy is. According to political […]
Dear Sirs: I enjoyed William Robinson’s article [Autumn, 1968], “Mormons in the Urban Community.” In order to expose our children to something other than our very isolated Mormon community (Utah Valley), two years ago […]
[…] coupled with a conservative, Victorian attitude toward morality (the fallen woman must meet a tragic end in order to redeem herself, while the hero who has succumbed to her temptation is allowed to live […]
Dialogue 53.3 (Fall 2020): 41–106 Regarding the discussions in Mormon studies and other literary sub-fields related to contemporaries of Smith, the availability of ideas about 1 Enoch and some of the actual content were […]
In a 1969 review-essay entitled ” The New Mormon History,” Moses Rischin spoke of the sophistication with which scholars both within and without the Mormon culture were beginning to examine the Mormon past. He […]
[…] and long suffering, and that a man’s authority over a woman gives him the opportunity not to order her about but to protect and serve her. Husbands who browbeat their wives will soon have […]
[…] men that they may have faith unto repentance.” In other words, the forgiveness must be accepted in order to be efficacious: “For what doth it profit a man if a gift is bestowed upon […]
When was the last time you read a romance novel? My answer does not count. I recently read three for the sole purpose of finding one to review, but the previous time was certainly […]
[…] they be heard. [1] Russell M. Nelson, “A Plea to My Sisters,” Oct. 2015, https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2015/10/a-plea-to-my-sisters?lang=eng. [2] Claudia Lauper Bushman, “Women in Dialogue: An Introduction,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 6, no. 2 (1971): 8.
To the editor: Let me begin by outlining what does and does not motivate me in writing a response to Taylor Petrey’s carefully executed, unmistakably informed, rightly concerned, and entirely productive essay, “Toward a […]