Recently, Dialogue asked Susanna Morrill, associate professor of religious studies at Lewis and Clark College, to moderate a discussion between Robert Orsi and Richard Lyman Bushman, then chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University.
[…] then president of the LDS Church and less than three years away from his own death, spoke to a group of people in the Eleventh Ward meetinghouse in Salt Lake City. The past was […]
[…] Spencer W. Kimball was our Church’s first Indian president. An Arizona desert-raised son of a missionary to over twenty nations of Native Americans— “Lamanites,” in Mormon parlance—Kimball focused his vision on these indigenous peoples […]
[…] hymns in unison. But The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has long favored congregational part-singing. Nevertheless, a small but vigorous LDS constituency in the past thirty years has advocated a shift to unison-singing.
The Book of Mormon opens with a provocative conundrum: how can the sensory world of revelation most effectively be rendered in language? After introducing himself and his process of making scripture, the prophet-narrator Nephi recounts […]
In the spirit of Gene’s writings, entries should relate to Latter-day Saint experience, theology, or worldview. Essays will be judged by noted Mormon authors and professors of literature. Winners will be notified by email […]
[…] members were excommunicated or resigned in 2016, bringing the total for the last four years to just over 150,000. This value is based on several fudge-factors, and should only be taken as a rough […]
[…] www.MillerEccles.org The Topic: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was not unique in expressing alarm over changes in the American family in during the 20th century, especially in attitudes towards male/female relationships […]
[…] words, the moment we bring an event to the present or the future, we redeem it, or buy it back. We reclaim it. We recover it, we possess it once again. Read the full […]
Dialogue’s affiliated blog, By Common Consent, will be liveblogging General Conference, with real-time coverage from the Conference Center and lots of discussion, both serious and silly, in the comment section. Can’t quite tell what color…