[…] 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.
Race, Lineage, and the 1920s-1940s Genealogical Society of Utah As a complement to Dialogue’s fall 2018 issue commemorating the end of the Church’s race-based restrictions, we offer an audio-with-slides presentation by Stirling Adams of […]
[…] poem by Bob Christmas, this book is your chance to catch up. Take it. If you have read poems by Bob Christmas, this book is your chance to enjoy yourself all over again. Plunge in.
[…] 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 words, become […]
[…] shoulder the cost of maintaining the building, but the tabernacle could be saved if someone else would buy it. The price was set: sixty-six thousand dollars. The committee took to the streets in fundraising […]
[…] mem- bers who participate in same-sex marriages as “apostates” and forbade children in their households from receiving baby blessings or baptisms sparked ongoing attention to the topic of LGBTQ Mormon well-being, mental health, and suicides.
[…] as private individuals, taking political stands, working for social justice, seeking to influence legislation and so on.”[ 6] Among involved Christians motivation varies. Some respond out of fear of riots, others out of a […]
Thus Clinton Larson in an interview published in Dialogue for Autumn 1969. Dr. Larson, whom Karl Keller has described as the first “Mormon poet,” also affirmed a hope that “If . . . literary […]
Dialogue 10.2 (Summer 1977): 12–46 The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing […]
Dialogue 12.2 (Summer 1979): 22–36 Elijah Abel, a black man ordained to the priesthood, was restricted in his church participation starting in 1843, even though he was well respected by both members and leaders. […]