Martin Harris: The Kirtland Years, 1831-1870
March 27, 2018[…] the plates and handled them with my hands and can testify of the same to the whole world.[7] At the time of the Book of Mormon’s publication in 1830, Harris re quested a commandment […]
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A History of Dialogue, Part Three: “Coming of Age” in Utah, 1982-1989
March 28, 2018[…] for an unprecedented “disciplining” of modern Mormon scholars. The situation is ironic. In presenting itself as the world’s only true religion, the LDS church officially believes its teachings and doctrines will hold up under […]
The Struggle for Female Authority in Biblical and Mormon Tradition
March 13, 2018Dialogue 48.2 (Summer 2015): 1–57 Although race and gender are connected in 2 Nephi 26:33, the historical origins of the gender ban have not yet been addressed with the same degree of attention in […]
The Red Peril, the Candy Maker, and the Apostle: David O. McKay’s Confrontation with Communism
March 23, 2018[…] Clark, Jr., whose many years of service in the State Department gave him a broad exposure to world politics. In 1936 the two counselors joined with President Heber J. Grant to issue the first […]
Male-Male Intimacy among Nineteenth-century Mormons: A Case Study
April 6, 2018[…] his book-length treatment Same-Sex Dynamics in 19th C. America: A Mormon Example, that looked at “intimacy” broadly defined, before the rise of homophobia in the post-WWII period. It is a fascinating study of changing norms and […]
The Book of Mormon as a Modern Expansion of an Ancient Source
April 17, 2018Dialogue 20.1 (Spring 1987): 69–75 EVEN A CASUAL REFERENCE to studies treating the Book of Mormon reveals a range of divergent explanations of its origins. At one extreme are those who are skeptical of […]
Birth Control Among the Mormons: Introduction to an Insistent Question
April 26, 2018Dialogue 10.2 (Summer 1977): 12–46 The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing […]
Science and Religion: A Symbiosis
April 27, 2018[…] 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 grounds of age […]
The Adam-God Doctrine
April 19, 2018[…] a session of general conference. He intended to preach several discourses, he said, and as the Deseret News observed the following week, “the Holy Ghost [rested] upon [him] in great power, while he revealed […]
The Development of the Mormon Temple Endowment Ceremony
April 17, 2018Dialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 75–122 Buerger outlines the history of the endowment ceremony but does not share anything that he has covenanted not to divulge.