[…] 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 […]
[…] accepts it as divine writ or not. Joseph Smith’s involvement with the pre-European past of the New World continued to be strong, long after 1830, when the Book of Mormon was published. In 1834, […]
[…] that the individual spirit of man existed in the presence of God before the creation of the world is unique in modern Christianity. Mormons have rejected the Creator/creature dichotomy of Patristic theology and its […]
Dialogue 19.4 (Winter1986): 18–28 Taylor identifies the history behind the Smith Family and treasure seeking. During the 19th century treasure seeking is associated with both greed, but also obtaining spirtual knowledge like in Joseph […]
[…] evening and suggesting some directions for future research. Before trying to draw a picture of the Mormon world that emerges from narratives in the folklore archives, I must make a few statements about the […]
[…] what particular political or military objective a government might have, are absolved of responsibility for killing. During World War II, we had the tragic situation of Mormon soldiers from Germany and Mormon soldiers from […]