[…] Said Kimball: The mount with its provisional flag signified the ensign to which “the oppressed of the world should flee for refuge.”39 Kimball’s flag waving was an impulsive act, a foreshadowing of what might […]
Dialogue 29.4 (Winter 1996): 119–135 The Book of Mormon variously uses “white” and “pure” in the same verse in different editions. This article traces the history of those changes, who was behind them, and why.
[…] first week, I borrowed Charles’s car and took Marilyn driving. I was very happy and the entire world seemed right. On Sunday we agreed to meet at church. On my way to meeting that […]
[…] rolling over his pickup trying to make it home through a snowstorm, and she hadn’t noticed the world standing in line to give her a hand up. She hadn’t missed a day’s work ’til […]
[…] study, I chose four ethnic groups, a simplification of the many diverse ethnicities within the Church and world. However, it makes the analysis simpler and reflects some of the current scientific thinking about racial […]
[…] this essay, I shall begin by describing what we can learn about our Mother in Heaven from the scriptures. I then will draw from those descriptions some (very modest) suggestions for how we might […]
[…] J’étais lá!” While these humble women, dressed in robin-egg-blue housecoats, could not bring home a piece of the cross, they could show me their holy water, rosary beads, or skinned knees, emblems of their […]
[…] explores conflicting messages within LDS teaching on LGBT rights, when it both opposed same-sex marriage and in the wake of Prop 8 also came out in support of other LGBT rights that display both […]
[…] doctrine and history, which have challenged the anthropocentrism of mainstream American attitudes and behaviors toward the nonhuman world in a number of important ways, and the current LDS status quo, in which environ mental […]
Psychologist William James referred to personal identity as psychology’s “most puzzling puzzle.” The oracle of Delphi’s most famous charge—Know Yourself—affirms that human puzzlement over the nature of identity goes back to the early days […]