[…] Affirmation increased the Church’s queer awareness quotient by regularly bringing in queer Latter-day Saints from around the world to meet with Public Affairs at headquarters. Mormons Building Bridges (MBB) was organized, increasing the visibility […]
Dialogue 54.3 (Fall 2021): 41–65 However, the 1886 Revelation and subsequent statement also raised their own doctrinal questions that were continually developed through the lineage that became Woolleyite Mormonism. Namely, why was the resurrected […]
[…] once said, “[We] must do more than go along with what [we] find. [We] must lift the world.”[5] But how to lift when all I want to do is shrink? To straighten, to forgive, […]
Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 29–44 Smith considers “why would any self-aware Black person find Mormonism the least bit appealing given its ignoble history of racial exclusion and marginalization?”
[…] the brightness, and wheels around to face his students, careless of the fact that he represents the world they will work to bury the memory of. Ignorant of the fact that he’s lucky to […]
The speed with which photographs of the Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri were published once they came into the possession of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a gratifying contrast to […]
If you like fresh air, 25¢ hamburgers, and security, New York may not be the place for you. If you want a Rinso-clean wash you can hang in the backyard, where crickets sound at […]
[…] of God. No other work of literature has presented the Mormon story more forcefully to the non-Mormon world. Not surprisingly, however, Mormons have never made a cult of Vardis Fisher. Reared a Mormon, Fisher […]
[…] 9.4 (Winter 1974): 21–34 Foster points out that in 1842 an unpublished pamphlet was written called “ The Peace Maker” that expressed its support for polygamy. It is the first-known defense of polygamy before […]
[…] to labor.” Wrote Young, Thatcher “throws away the Priesthood and hugs poli tics, rendering fealty to the world at the same time inconstant to his former vows.” Lorenzo Snow would agree a year later […]