[…] manifestations. Deep in the Mormon psyche is an attraction to prophetic posturing and swagger. In particular, Joseph Smith, Jr., and Brigham Young are icons who have come to dominate the Mormon world like mythical colossuses.
March 26, 1996 I am sitting in a hotel suite in Moscow. The airport lost our luggage, so we are going to stay here until they find it. Our total flight time was fifteen […]
[…] owe a debt that the “little things” of life, the day-to-day knowledge of God’s blessings in the world, were retained along with the sweeping stories of liberation and peoplehood. The wisdom books are part […]
[…] In particular, Joseph Smith, Jr., and Brigham Young are icons who have come to dominate the Mormon world like mythical colossuses. After Smith’s untimely 1844 murder, Brigham Young and an ailing Sidney Rigdon, the […]
[…] were Spanish-speaking, two used American Sign Language, and one unit each spoke Chinese and Korean, thus, putting English-speaking units into the minority. Lucas (like many sociologists of religion) argues that social networks are critical […]
[…] every caesura and metaphor, as God’s design and, further, that God intended, even commanded, the rabbis to search out not only all possible interpretations of the text and everything that lay hidden in the […]
Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2012): 70–83 I will be talking today about how women fit into the functional structure of LDS church governance; but, unlike many of the others speaking today, I do not have […]
Dialogue 57:4 (Winter 2024) 107-112 Since joining the Church, I have been blessed with a number of revelations relating to my life as a gay Mormon. Perhaps more remarkable may be how few of […]
[…] heart was embedded in my religion and culture, the other half swelling with love for the wider world and the people in it. In 2008, my church heavily promoted California’s Proposition 8, the ballot […]
Dialogue 50.3 (Fall 2017): 89–115 I thus argue that Mormonism exists wherever there is belief in the Book of Mormon, even though many adherents reject the term “Mormonism” to distance themselves from the LDS […]