[…] 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 […]
[…] I review here, The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry and The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner, counter this trend, presenting characters who wrestle with issues of faith and belief as they navigate the […]
[…] be parents. Many men like me feel a deep desire to be hands-on fathers who claim responsibility for many of the tasks that previous generations assigned principally to mothers; to not perform these duties […]
[…] both awe and some confusion among rank-and-file Latter-day Saints while causing at least a degree of discomfort for Church leaders and spokespeople who are trying to make Mormonism more palatable for our mainstream Christian […]
The text the bishop suggested for my remarks today comes from Doctrine and Covenants 45:66: “And it shall be called the New Jerusalem, a land of peace, a city of refuge, a place of […]
[…] know as we went along. But many were cautious. How would we pay for it? Would anyone buy it? Did we have anything to say? Who would write for us? We wanted to keep […]
[…] denigrate or detract from the enormous significance of the histories by Edward Tullidge and Hubert Howe Bancroft,[ 6] it may be fairly said that “objective,” “scholarly,” and “systematic” treatises on the Mormons and their […]
Dialogue 1. 3 (Fall 1966): 29–46 In this early article, Allen shows that the First Vision was not well known during Joseph Smith’s lifetime. It became well known after the Prophet’s death, which is […]
[…] not His Son to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. (John 3:16, 17) In the Mormon view of eternal life, grace precedes, accompanies, and completes individual effort and […]
[…] learned by letter that the First Presidency had acted upon the Lund-Hintze report. The Church could not buy the colony site at that time because it had no money. Hintze had more or less […]