Essay for June 9, 1998
March 31, 2018[…] manifest to me that they pertained to the new name that is given the saints that the world knows not of.[18] To the descendant of slaves, a “new name” would have great significance. Jane […]
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Ella Smyth Peacock: Seeking Her Place in the West
March 31, 2018[…] admired his innovative lifestyle, carried out at the same time the LDS church sent missionaries around the world. Grandfather Munhall—a Methodist evangelist who traveled widely, knew the Bible “from front to back,” and wrote […]
The Mormon Myth of Evil Evolution
March 27, 2018Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 19–38 In the years since this event, I’ve found that there are a number of members who believe that evolution is a doctrine of the devil.
Saints for All Seasons: Lavina Fielding Anderson and Bernard Shaw’s Joan of Arc
March 26, 2018In September of 1993 Lavina Fielding Anderson was excommunicated from the LDS church for documenting and publishing instances of the church’s punishing treatment of Mormon intellectuals and feminists, as well as other instances of […]
“To Set in Order the House of God”: The Search for the Elusive “One Mighty and Strong”
March 21, 2018When Orson Pratt, apostle and LDS Church historian, revised the Doctrine and Covenants in 1876 at the direction of Brigham Young, he included Section 85 among some twenty-five other new sections. Section 85 is […]
Like the Lilies of the Field
March 21, 2018I float in the corner of the university diving pool. My legs, which are more muscular and dense than my torso, pull me down. Closing my eyes, I’m rocked by the wake from a […]
Latter-day Saints under Siege: The Unique Experience of Nicaraguan Mormons
March 21, 2018[…] about 45 percent in the United States and Canada. By 2020, the majority of Mormons in the world will be Latin Americans, if the current growth rates continue. Judging from current LDS growth rates, […]
A Case for Same-Sex Marriage: Reply to Randolph Muhlestein
March 21, 2018Dialogue 40.3 (Fall 2007): 50–60 These articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if […]
Violence in the Scriptures: Mormonism and the Cultural Theory of René Girard
March 17, 2018Many who revere the scriptures as the inspired word of God are nonetheless disturbed by them. The scriptures contain inconsistencies and outright contradictions. Particularly disturbing for many are scriptural portrayals of God as wrathful, […]
America and the One True Church: What My Church Taught Me about My Country
March 15, 2018[…] who recently retired as chancellor of the California Community College System, the largest higher-education system in the world; by Robert M. Randolph, chaplain at MIT who regularly works with students from Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, […]