[…] for example, if a woman was menstruating, pregnant, or infertile. Assuming that “men cannot contain themselves,” in order to avoid wasting semen, “hence they can marry several women.” Anabaptist polygamy met with difficulty. Forced […]
[…] setting, polygyny is not a practice to project into the eternities as the basis for a celestial order. Heaven is, by definition, a place where the cultural limitations and historical peculiarities of earth-life no […]
During the early 1840S, founding Mormon prophet Joseph Smith introduced members of his young church to the ordinances of baptism for the dead (1840), eternal marriage (1841), and eternal proxy marriage (1842). These ordinances, […]
[…] the sons of Aaron only. Earlier still, it was not even necessary to be a Levite in order to be a priest. Any man could be a priest, provided that he had been properly […]
[…] article will explain what trauma is and how to be trauma informed, describe a few examples from the Book of Mormon in which a sensitivity to trauma could reveal greater insights from the text, […]
[…] provides an outline for how to have a more robust intrafaith dialogue about race among members of the LDS church. Using principles from Martin Luther King, Jr. about dialogue on race, Whitaker argues for […]
[…] didn’t actually come face to face with it until my final mission interview with my bishop. In order to get my call, I had to lie. It was a hot California night, and I […]
<i>Dialogue 44.4 (Winter 2011): 106–141</i><br> 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 […]
[…] the division of the ward and the creation of a branch for ‘those people.’” Martins warned: “In order to avoid the disintegration of local LDS communities the LDS Church must be on the watch […]
“Pretty girls don’t buy cocaine,” Greta says and laughs as she walks out the front door. My hands and face sting as I stand frozen in the entryway and hear her start the car. […]