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.’”[31] Martins warned: “In order to avoid the disintegration of local LDS communities the LDS Church must be on the watch […]
Dialogue 53.4 (Winter 2020): 79–107 In the logic of Mormon theology, an internal lack of faith is in part a result of the mismanagement of my mortal embodiment. Part of the reason that the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] during my mortal journey. *** In August 2023, Gary drove me to meet with my guide, Bertie.[ 6] I’d met with her a few times while building our relationship of trust. I’d read that […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Many Utahns may call the Utah War of 1857-58 “Johnston’s Army,” but the U.S. Army and most historians surely do not. It seems to me that this shorthand label for the war trivializes, personalizes, […]