[…] and makes a compelling case concerning the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ racial policies since World War II. While the parameters of the story are well known, the twentieth- and twenty-first-century Church’s […]
[…] to an accident when the angel of God who was assigned to evenly distribute fools around the world tripped in Poland, leaving the town “fool-flooded and wit-less” (xii). Each of the stories offers the […]
I was fasting that day when we went out into the farmlands around Nagasaki, looking up referrals. After hours of walking, we found ourselves on a ridge looking down on rice fields and […]
[…] about all that’s been accomplished in the nearly 60 years since her dad founded Dialogue — the world’s foremost independent Mormon studies journal. But we also realize I’m the only person discouraging us from […]
[…] Edgar Baker (Thomas G. Evans and Christopher Blythe), the House of Aaron (Casey Paul Griffiths), the ongoing search for Earl John Brewer’s caves (Christopher C. Smith), and Matthew Philip Gill’s new movement (Matthew Bowman). […]
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[…] this letter, Jeremy did not “know” the Catholic Church was true. Like millions of Catholics around the world, he nevertheless assented his will to it. In the last ten years, books, documentaries, and television […]
[…] from Queer Mormons of Marginalized Genders. I had been delighted when asked to review it, but when the time came, anxiety overwhelmed me. I knew I would see myself in this book in an […]
[…] its analysis of individuals’ experiences living in polygamous households. He gives outsiders an extensive peek into the world of plural marriage living. His anthropological work also proffers an introspective mirror useful for fundamentalist Mormons—perhaps […]