[…] among Latter-day Saints but also among all God’s children! If that was not clear enough, in early 2012, the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unequivocally condemned racism, which […]
[…] Adam Miller’s wonderfully imaginative and provocative book of criticism, Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology ( 2012), I stated: “At times, Miller seems as much poet as theologian. Essay after essay does what […]
Over the last few decades, universities have become the home of contemporary poetry in the United States, where nearly every major poet is also an academic. Poets, like other professors, teach classes, publish in tiered journals, sit on committees, undergo tenure review, secure grants, win prizes, attend conferences, and oversee graduate students. The result is that poetry, whatever else may be said of it, is a recognized industry of intellectual activity within university culture. It constitutes an academic discourse not unlike history or sociology.
[…] 437–48. [4] Caitlin Ryan and Robert A. Rees, Family Education LDS Booklet (San Francisco: Family Acceptance Project, 2012). [5] Mustanski and Liu, “A Longitudinal Study of Predictors,” 437–48. [6] Tracy Tang, “Gay-Straight Alliances in […]
[…] V. H. Cassler, “Plato’s Son, Augustine’s Heir: ‘A Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology’?” Square Two 5, no. 2 (Summer 2012), retrieved from http://squaretwo. org/Sq2ArticleCasslerPlatosSon.html. [15] Joseph Don Carlos Young, Private Notebook (no date; no pagination), currently […]
Statisticians predict that by 2012 native Spanish speakers will surpass native English speakers as the LDS church’s largest language group.[1] Clearly, the church is about to reach a dramatic turning point in its international […]
[…] delivered in conjunction with a slideshow of web-sourced images. These illustrative figures may be found at www.dialoguejournal.com/ 2012/the-gold plates-in-the-popular-imagination. The gold plates occupy an interesting place in Mormon culture. Although they are an essential […]
Joe Plicka has taught at BYU-Hawaii since 2012. His work can be found in the anthology, Fire in the Pasture: twenty-first century mormon poets and, more recently, in Christianity Today’s literary offshoot, Ekstasis Magazine, as well as […]
[…] Graduate University, and the author of The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith (Random House, 2012) and Christian: The Politics of a Word in America (Harvard, 2018). He received his PhD at […]
[…] years. At stake also has been the viability of Sanford as a possible Republican presidential nominee in 2012, if not his current hold on South Carolina’s gubernatorial chair. Citizens of other states tempted to […]