The idea for this panel sprang from last year’s western Pilgrimage reunion, an annual meeting of women. We were sitting around observing who’d become a Relief Society president and being amazed. We tried […]
[…] and demographic perspectives to provide an overview of the dynamics operating to shape the configuration of Mormondom—the world’s Latter-day Saint population—for the period 1950- 2020. First, we regionalize the highly uneven distribution of the […]
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, […]
[…] of what needs to be done to increase peace, security, and human dignity in communities throughout the world leaves one wondering where to start. At the risk of sounding parochial, I would suggest that […]
Dialogue departs from its usual review format in the following exchange of points of view on W. Cleon Skousen’s latest book, The Naked Capitalist
[…] tide . . . an exhilarating sense of discovery, a utopian hope that women might change the world.” Laurel Thatcher Ulrich With the recent momentous reduction of the minimum age for female missionaries, the […]
[…] just past the midpoint of the Cold War, the FI’s purpose was “to give light to the world” and help people “be aware of the problems in the world today.” In a 1975 speech […]
[…] And not only this, but those things which never have been revealed from the foundation of the world, but have been kept hid from the wise and prudent, shall be revealed unto babes and […]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has experienced stable growth in Taiwan since the first four missionaries arrived in 1956. Even in recent years, when the growth of the Church has […]
<i>Dialogue 51.1 (Spring 2018): 167–180</i><br>The issue of authority in Mormonism became painfully public with the rise of the Ordain Women movement.