[…] womanhood. Underneath contrived plot lines and lofty language, Mormon women’s fiction reveals how its authors understood the world and their place in it. Their work, however stylistically immature, emerges as a valuable source for […]
[…] Joseph Smith at Nauvoo, when the prophet said: He believed that among all the Churches in the world the Methodist was the nearest right, and that, as far as they went, they were right. […]
LDS attitudes towards war and peace in general have been covered fairly comprehensively in the past decade or so. The attitudes are complex and generally attempt to strike a balance between the duty to […]
[…] leaders simply admitted the essential accuracy of the charge. “I call upon the weak things of the world, those who are unlearned and despised, to thresh the nations by the power of my Spirit,” […]
<i>Dialogue 25.1 (Spring 1992): 13–36</i><br>A historical analysis of the globalization of the Church. Under President David O McKay, the Church was able to reach out to more people beyond North America and Europe, which […]
Legend has it that in the year 988 A.D., Prince Vladimir, ruler of ancient Kievan Rus’, brought Christianity to the Slavs. The apparent catalyst for his own conversion was a plea from Emperor Basil […]
<i>Dialogue 43.2 (Fall 2010): 45–63</i><br>Mormon women weren’t passive recipients of the new feminism. We helped to create it.
Almost two decades have elapsed since I published The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994). My book began by acknowledging and illustrating the “Americanization” thesis […]
[…] other substances that, when shared in place and over time, create true relatedness within some of the world’s least white places, such as those found in Peru. In sum, the act’s “conditional inclusion” only […]
[…] universe as having divine import. In the gospel of John we read: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish […]