[…] ago, my article “Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology” was published in Dialogue. I did not know what to expect when it made its way into the world, but it ended up being a widely […]
[…] reason that the “born this way” language of the marriage equality movement has had so little effect on the Mormon population compared to others is that it directly contradicts very recent and revered theological claims.
[…] in the world and different people respond to different voices. Those who are Christ’s respond to His call. Does Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought issue the voice of Christ, or some other voice? […]
[…] a wish that the book had been better—following up loose ends, expanding where hints and unexploited opportunities now leave the reader unsatisfied, and patching some of the holes (for example, the implications of continuing […]
[…] around which Joyce’s autobiographical hero turned, and Joyce never wrote a non-Irish, non-“Catholic” book. We might similarly call Vardis Fisher the great Mormon novelist. To the end of his life Fisher was a maverick […]
[…] therefore a “gentle invitation” to Latter-day Saints to ex amine their lives. It is a movingly unpretentious call to repentance from an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, an exhortation couched in controlled and […]
[…] most of us, there is little doubt that science was victorious in its centuries-long warfare with theology. From Galileo—kneeling in the robes of a penitent criminal before his Inquisitors, pleading for mercy on the […]
[…] some good-natured raillery directed at Fowler. It was a standard part of his lecture, it seems, to call for someone from the audience to be examined publicly. When the professor asked for two people […]
[…] is available in modern English and has been for over a decade. More recently the 1966 RLDS “reader’s edition” has been republished in paperback by Pyramid Publications and is now turning up at local bookstores.
[…] it seemed to me that I no longer fit very well with the Latterday Saints, as they call themselves, and I began to attend church less frequently because it seemed to me to have […]