From Emerson to Alma: A Personal Odyssey
April 10, 2018[…] my past in getting me where I am. Two aspects of Emerson’s thought that shaped my teenage world shape my adult world as well. The one that first seized my imagination was the notion […]
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Youth, Sex, and Coercion: The Neglect of Sexual Abuse Factors in LDS Data and Policy on Premarital Sex
April 5, 2018LDS church standards require that sexual relations be confined to marriage. While the world in general seems to have grown more tolerant of premarital sex, church standards have remained stringent. Sermons, articles, and auxiliary […]
“I Do Remember How It Smelled Heavenly”: Mormon Aspects of May Swenson’s Poetry
April 4, 2018[…] Mormon past with respect and affection and looks with a more critical eye at the contemporary Mormon world. Her memories of childhood, as they appear in her poems, are especially rich. In section 3 […]
At Fifty-Nine
April 2, 2018[…] then that Sheehan was a beacon of calm ness, a point of reference for me, that the world was not entirely mad— particularly during a demanding final business stretch. And though not a runner, […]
The Use and Abuse of Anti-Semitism in the Scriptures
March 29, 2018[…] deranged immigrant had walked into the Family Research Center in Salt Lake City and started shooting. The world had turned suddenly sinister. We were just finishing our course of study, the Doctrine & Covenants, […]
Why I Can’t Write My Joseph Smith Play
March 27, 2018[…] whispering attendants to my lifelong dialogues with Joseph. I had to remind myself that I see the world differently than I did forty years ago. I’d come on a long and tortured journey. Until […]
Bodies, Babies, and Birth Control
March 26, 2018[…] In this paper I will explore official and unofficial messages that theLDS church has sent to girls and women about childbearing during the twentieth century and the effect those messages have had on women’sreproductive choices.
Perseverance amid Paradox: The Struggle of the LDS Church in Japan Today
March 21, 2018The growth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has recently slowed in Japan, as elsewhere, adding to the decades-long challenge for the Church of a low activity rate within the […]
Once upon July
March 21, 2018At home it was hot . . . days and days above a hundred. I could imagine the leaves of summer wilting in the afternoon heat. But that was so far away on the […]
Polygamy, Mormonism, and Me
March 20, 2018Dialogue 41.2 (Summer 2009): 85–101 Hardy describes the long, difficult process of researching polygamy during a time that the church wasn’t open about polygamy.