[…] that the sisters never intended to be read publicly not only opens the door to the little-known world of feminine relationships between Mormon and non-Mormon kin but also enables us to understand the historical […]
In this important historical letter, Stewart Udall reflects on the need for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to reconsider its historical stance on race, particularly its practice of denying full fellowship […]
“Joseph Paul Vorst was arguably the most culturally significant Latter-day Saint painter of his time.”So, starts the Church History Museum’s video for the exhibition on the life and works of Joseph Paul Vorst (1897–1947). […]
[…] provides an outline for how to have a more robust intrafaith dialogue about race among members of the LDS church. Using principles from Martin Luther King, Jr. about dialogue on race, Whitaker argues for […]
The following thoughts come from my experience as a faithful and ortho dox Latter-day Saint, as a Mormon bishop, as a critic of some aspects of institutionalized Mormonism, and as an activist and […]
[…] by wonderful Mormon folk in 1980s Davis County, Utah. I was finding my way to faith in the miserable, wet poverty of southern Louisiana, but it was a faith inflected by my lifelong skepticism […]
[…] Speech in the United States, 314-15, 543 (1941); Mill, On Liberty, 271 (Great Books of the Western World ed., 1952). Discriminations in terms of age classifications have been commonly accepted features of many statutes […]
[…] Lake Basin had, relatively speaking, little or no identity crisis. They had limitless land, isolation from the outside world for nearly a decade, and the creative and resourceful guidance of established leaders. These leaders were […]
[…] training. A second area of importance was the research opportunities provided by the Brigham Young University New World Archaeological Foundation (BYU NWAF). In the early 1960s President David O. McKay appointed Elder Howard W. […]
[…] our personal restoration, we come to this place made sacred in our ordinances. Young Joseph sought this world in his confusion. He came to ask what he could do; he came to talk in […]