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The Dark Side of Devotion Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner, The Contortionists
Shayla FrandsenWhen a five-year-old boy tragically disappears from a quiet LDS neighborhood, grief-stricken family members, detectives, ward members, and suspects all struggle to find their footing in the agonizing aftermath. In The Contortionists, the new novel…
Mormonism and the Possibility of a Materialist Apostasy
Zachary GublerThe notion of apostasy is central to the identity of the Mormon people.[1] One might even say it is the raison d’être of Mormonism. It is the thing that explains why there needed to be…
Archive of the Covenant: Reflections on Mormon Interactions with State and Body
Kit HermansonDialogue 53.4 (Winter 2020): 79–107
In the logic of Mormon theology, an internal lack of faith is in part a result of the mismanagement of my mortal embodiment. Part of the reason that the “born this way” language of the marriage equality movement has had so little effect on the Mormon population compared to others is that it directly contradicts very recent and revered theological claims.
Mischief and Ethnography Keith Norman. BUC: A Boy among the Saints
Linda Hoffman KimballBUC: A Boy among the Saints spans a “year in the life of an unregenerate 10 year old”—the endearing young rascal Wilford Bushman. Wilf, like most in his rural Utah community of Anti-Nephi-Lehi, is “BUC”—“born…
The Dark Side of Devotion Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner, The Contortionists
Shayla FrandsenWhen a five-year-old boy tragically disappears from a quiet LDS neighborhood, grief-stricken family members, detectives, ward members, and suspects all struggle to find their footing in the agonizing aftermath. In The Contortionists, the new novel…
Mormonism and the Possibility of a Materialist Apostasy
Zachary GublerThe notion of apostasy is central to the identity of the Mormon people.[1] One might even say it is the raison d’être of Mormonism. It is the thing that explains why there needed to be…
Archive of the Covenant: Reflections on Mormon Interactions with State and Body
Kit HermansonDialogue 53.4 (Winter 2020): 79–107
In the logic of Mormon theology, an internal lack of faith is in part a result of the mismanagement of my mortal embodiment. Part of the reason that the “born this way” language of the marriage equality movement has had so little effect on the Mormon population compared to others is that it directly contradicts very recent and revered theological claims.
A Mormon Boy Meets a King
Henry Landon MilesPost Mormon Past
Ronald WilcoxStill You
Kalani TongaWhat’s a Mormon Expert to Do?
Mette Ivie Harrison“Mormon”: A Journalist’s Dilemma
Peggy Fletcher StackOn “Mormon” in Mormon Studies Publishing
Loyd Isao EricsonWhy I’m So Bad at Not Using “Mormon”
Rebbie BrassfieldThe Mormon Church and the Language of My Faith
Michael AustinSweater
Theric JepsonMinistering
Kristine HaglundReview: Can Faith Survive Choice and Circumstance? Jack Harrell. Caldera Ridge.
Heidi NaylorThe Possessive Investment in Rightness: White Supremacy and the Mormon Movement
Joanna BrooksBrooks explains that “Mormons will have to choose to acknowledge the pivotal and pervasive role of white supremacy in the founding of LDS institutions and the growth of the Mormon movement.”
Review: The Empty Space between the Walls Joseph M. Spencer. The Vision of All: Twenty-five Lectures on Isaiah in Nephi’s Record
Mark D. ThomasReview: Not Alone Stephen Carter, ed. Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death
Cristina RosettiReview: Envisioning Mormon Art Laura Allred Hurtado. Immediate Present
Sarah C. ReedReview: Horror Becomes Banal Under Scrutiny but Loss is Lasting in The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner Jennifer Quist. The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner
Rachel HelpsReview: Helping Us Think and Be in the World Linda Sillitoe. Owning the Moon
Lisa Orme BickmoreReview: The Gift of Language Heidi Naylor. Revolver
Michael Andrew EllisReview: A Life Worth Living George B. Handley. Learning to Like Life: A Tribute to Lowell Bennion
Zach HutchinsReview: Traveling “the undiscovered country” Stephen Carter, ed. Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death
Susan Elizabeth HoweRemember Me: Discursive Needlework and the Sewing Sampler of Patty Bartlett Sessions
Stacey DearingThere’s No Such Thing as a Gospel Culture
Gina ColvinCan Mormons be White in America?
Robert A. GoldbergFrom the Pulpit: Why I Stay
John Gustav-WrathallDialogue 50.2 (Summer 2017): 209–213
“I was excommunicated from the Church in 1986. I am a gay man in a twenty-five-year-long relationship with my husband Göran Gustav-Wrathall. We were legally married in July 2008. Over the years, people have asked me how it is that I could consider myself Mormon if I’m not a member of the Church. What covenants are there for me to renew on Sunday morning, sitting in the pews, as I pass, without partaking, the sacrament tray to the person sitting next to me? To the extent that there is a relationship between me and God that has the Church as a context, real as it is to me, it is invisible to outside observers. That’s okay. I stay because I cannot deny what I know.”
To the Single Men of the Church
Derk KoldewynWhat the Church Means to People Like Me
Richard D. PollA Translation of the Apparent Source of the Book of Abraham
Klaus BaerMormons in the Executive Suite
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Maida WithersManhattan Faces
Mary AllenMormons as City Planners
Charles L. SellersThe Challenge of Secularism
James L. ClaytonVilla Mae
Vivian H. OlsenA Time of Transition
Renee P. CarlsonA Personal Commitment to Civil Equality
Daniel H. GagonReflections at Hopkins House
Belle CluffMormons in the Urban Community
William H. RobinsonMormons in the Secular City: An Introduction
Garth L. MangumWhy the Coleville Tabernacle Had to be Razed: Principles Governing Mormon Architecture
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Ralph W. HansenBirth Control Among the Mormons: Introduction to an Insistent Question
Lester E. Bush Jr.The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing an abortion; a woman convicted of…
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Stephen W. StathisIllustrated Periodical Images of Mormons, 1850-1860
Gary L. BunkerMy Fifty Years in Journalism
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Richard Alan NelsonNostrums in the Newsroom
Paul SwensonThe Church as Broadcaster
Fred C. EsplinThe Church as Media Proprietor
Milton HollsteinEquality and Plain Living: Building the City of God, Community and Cooperation Among the Mormons
James L. ClaytonAmong the Mormons
Stephen W. StathisGambit in the Throbs of a Ten-Year-Old Swamp: Confessions of a Dialogue Intern
Karen Marguerite MoloneyThe Rise and Fall of Courage, an Independent RLDS Journal
William D. RussellAlthough Courage struck a responsive chord in quite a few hearts, its readers did not support it to the extent the editors had expected. Appealing only to a minority in a small church, and without either sufficient…
Windmill Jousting and Other Madness: Century 2
Randy JohnsonNew Messenger and Advocate
Kevin BarnhurstSunstone
Scott KenneyA Wider Sisterhood
Claudia L. BushmanBYU Studies, How She Is
Laura WadleyGospel by the Month
David BriscoeAmong the Mormons
Stephen W. StathisAmong the Mormons
Stephen W. StathisAmong the Mormons
Stephen W. StathisContraceptive Use Among Mormons, 1965-75
Tim B. Heaton“Among the Mormons”
Kenneth E. EbleMove Over, Fortune “500”: The Mormon Corporate Empire by John Heinerman and Anson Shupe
William P. MacKinnonJack-Mormons
Edward A. GearyI Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: East Meets West
Wilma OdellI Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: Through a Stained-Glass Window
Juliana Boerio-GoatesI Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: “To Celebrate the Marriage Feast Which Has No End”
Wendy S. LeeI Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: Introductory Remarks
Karen Marguerite MoloneyA Jew Among Mormons
Steve SiporinMormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: Ethnicity, Diversity, and Conflict
Helen PapanikolasMormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: A Reorganized Church Perspective
Richard P. HowardMormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: An Australian Viewpoint
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Marie CornwallMormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: Viewing Mormonism as Mainline
Mario S. De PillisTwentieth-Century Polygamy and Fundamentalist Mormons in Southern Utah
Ken DriggsDriggs shares the story of how in between the First and Second Manifestos, polygamy was still happening in secret.
In Their Own Behalf: The Politicization of Mormon Women and the 1870 Franchise
Lola Van WagenenBook of Mormon Stories That My Teachers Kept From Me
Neal ChandlerGlimmers and Glitches in Zion
B. J. FoggSelective Bibliography on African-American and Mormons 1830-1990
Chester Lee HawkinsBibliography of African Americans role in the church from 1830-1990.
Speaking for Themselves: LDS Ethnic Groups Oral History Project
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Ethnic Groups and the LDS Church
Jessie L. EmbryA history of ethnic wards and branches as the church struggled with integration vs. segregation of immigrant communities.
Living Histories: Selected Biographies from the Manhattan First Ward
Dian SaderupWomen Alone: The Economic and Emotional Plight of Early LDS Women
Linda ThatcherLatter-day Myths About Counseling and Psychotherapy
Mark Edward KoltkoBefore the Wall Fell: Mormons in the German Democratic Republic, 1945-89
Douglas F. ToblerA New Kind of Abuse: The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse
J. Frederic Voros Jr.Liberal Spirituality: A Personal Odyssey
L. Jackson NewellDialogue Toward Forgiveness: A Supporting View
Richard D. PollThe LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology
Lavina Fielding AndersonMale-Male Intimacy among Nineteenth-century Mormons: A Case Study
D. Michael QuinnDialogue 28.4 (Winter 1995): 105–119
This was a prelude to his book-length treatment Same-Sex Dynamics in 19th C. America: A Mormon Example, that looked at “intimacy” broadly defined, before the rise of homophobia in the post-WWII period. It is a fascinating study of changing norms and practices that once allowed for a huge range of bonding practices between people of the same-sex. Quinn himself had come out in the course of researching this article and the book a few years before, and this work remains influential.
Did Christ Pay for Our Sins?
Dennis R. PotterMormonism and Determinism
Blake T. OstlerSocial Forces that Imperil the Family
Tim B. HeatonWas Jesus a Feminist?
Todd M. ComptonSojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons by Jan Shipps
Bradley D. WoodworthThoughts on Mormonism, Evolution, and Brigham Young University
Keith E. NormanWell, I was raised i n a rather unscientific environment , a little farming community.
The Long Honeymoon: Jan Shipps among the Mormons
Klaus J. HansenYou Can Count on the Fingers of Your One Hand the Reasons
Darrell SpencerThe Divine-Infusion Theory: Rethinking the Atonement
Jacob MorganPremortal Spirits: Implications for Cloning, Abortion, Evolution, and Extinction
Kent C. CondiePerhaps no other moral issue divides the American public more than abortion. In part, the controversy hinges on the question of when the spirit enters the body. If a spirit were predestined for a given…
Clyde Forsberg’s Equal Rites and the Exoticizing of Mormonism
John-Charles DuffyChanging Faiths Gave My Sons Hope
Ann M. JohnsonMy Mission Decision
Henry Landon MilesMore Musings on Motherhood
Tracie A. LambOnce upon July
David Clark KnowltonTrial of Faith
John Gustav-WrathallIn 2007 there is an essay by John Gustav Wrathal, a man who was excommunicated in 1986 and remains in a relationship, now married to his long-time partner. But he is also deeply committed to…
Seeds of Faith in City Soil: Growing Up Mormon in New York City
Neylan McBaineBuildings
Tona HangenMay Many Phoenixes Rise
Allison PingreeA Deep Reverence in My Heart; Part of Our Family
Clayton ChristensenLooked like a Church, Sounded like a Church; How Beautiful Our Waters of Mormon
Molly BennionMove Back in a Heartbeat
Marilyn Lee BrownThe Bonds Endure; Freudian Analysis of Lehi’s Dream
Jim JohnstonTribute to a Building; Giving Church a Try
Arthur ShekNot Different from My Home
Katsu FunaiEqually Warm, Whether Empty or Full
Aja Fegert EyreNot the Building
Erin L. CrowleyAn Anchor for Me
Paula Kelly CaryotakisMatzoh for Sacrament
Steve RowleyPreserves
Carrol FirmageLight in Darkness: Embracing the Opportunity of Climate Change
Edwin Firmage Jr.An Excuse I’ve Been Working on for a While
Joey FranklinNo Longer as Strangers
Chase KimballTo the 78 Percent
Heidi HarrisFierce Joy and Proof That It Happened
Libby Potter BossMormon Scholars in the Humanities Conference: Overcoming Technology: The Grace of Stuff
James Faulconer“Shake Off the Dust of Thy Feet”: The Rise and Fall of Mormon Ritual Cursing
Samuel R. WeberWhy the True Church Cannot Be Perfect
Roger TerryBones Heal Faster: Spousal Abuse in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Terence L. DayReview: Brock Cheney. Plain but Wholesome: Foodways of the Mormon Pioneers
Christy SpackmanReview: Armand L. Mauss. Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport: Intellectual Journeys of a Mormon Academic
Brayden KingSinners Welcome Here (2002)
Phyllis BarberManly Virtue: Defining Male Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
Russell StevensonWhat Shall We Do with Thou? Modern Mormonism’s Unruly Usage of Archaic English Pronouns
Roger TerryThe Postum Table
David G. PaceA company man on his day off
Ronald WilcoxDenying, Leap, Someone I Used to Know
Mark D. BennionReview: E-mails with a Young Mormon about Adam Miller’s Letters to a Young Mormon Adam S. Miller. Letters to a Young Mormon
Russell Arben FoxBibliography Bring ‘Em Young
R. A. ChristmasDeveloping Integrity in an Uncertain World: An Interview with Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife
Kristine HaglundReview: The Mormon Murder Mystery Grows Up Mette Ivie Harrison. The Bishop’s Wife Tim Wirkus. City of Brick and Shadow
Michael AustinReview: Mormons Are a Different Country Mette Ivie Harrison. The Bishop’s Wife
Scott AbbottOn the Existential Impossibility of a Religious Identity: I’m a Mormon
David MasonFast Offering
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Linda Hoffman KimballBUC: A Boy among the Saints spans a “year in the life of an unregenerate 10 year old”—the endearing young rascal Wilford Bushman. Wilf, like most in his rural Utah community of Anti-Nephi-Lehi, is “BUC”—“born…
The Dark Side of Devotion Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner, The Contortionists
Shayla FrandsenWhen a five-year-old boy tragically disappears from a quiet LDS neighborhood, grief-stricken family members, detectives, ward members, and suspects all struggle to find their footing in the agonizing aftermath. In The Contortionists, the new novel…
Mormonism and the Possibility of a Materialist Apostasy
Zachary GublerThe notion of apostasy is central to the identity of the Mormon people.[1] One might even say it is the raison d’être of Mormonism. It is the thing that explains why there needed to be…
Archive of the Covenant: Reflections on Mormon Interactions with State and Body
Kit HermansonDialogue 53.4 (Winter 2020): 79–107
In the logic of Mormon theology, an internal lack of faith is in part a result of the mismanagement of my mortal embodiment. Part of the reason that the “born this way” language of the marriage equality movement has had so little effect on the Mormon population compared to others is that it directly contradicts very recent and revered theological claims.
A Mormon Boy Meets a King
Henry Landon MilesPost Mormon Past
Ronald WilcoxStill You
Kalani TongaWhat’s a Mormon Expert to Do?
Mette Ivie Harrison“Mormon”: A Journalist’s Dilemma
Peggy Fletcher StackOn “Mormon” in Mormon Studies Publishing
Loyd Isao EricsonWhy I’m So Bad at Not Using “Mormon”
Rebbie BrassfieldThe Mormon Church and the Language of My Faith
Michael AustinSweater
Theric JepsonMinistering
Kristine HaglundReview: Can Faith Survive Choice and Circumstance? Jack Harrell. Caldera Ridge.
Heidi NaylorThe Possessive Investment in Rightness: White Supremacy and the Mormon Movement
Joanna BrooksBrooks explains that “Mormons will have to choose to acknowledge the pivotal and pervasive role of white supremacy in the founding of LDS institutions and the growth of the Mormon movement.”
Review: The Empty Space between the Walls Joseph M. Spencer. The Vision of All: Twenty-five Lectures on Isaiah in Nephi’s Record
Mark D. ThomasReview: Not Alone Stephen Carter, ed. Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death
Cristina RosettiReview: Envisioning Mormon Art Laura Allred Hurtado. Immediate Present
Sarah C. ReedReview: Horror Becomes Banal Under Scrutiny but Loss is Lasting in The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner Jennifer Quist. The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner
Rachel HelpsReview: Helping Us Think and Be in the World Linda Sillitoe. Owning the Moon
Lisa Orme BickmoreReview: The Gift of Language Heidi Naylor. Revolver
Michael Andrew EllisReview: A Life Worth Living George B. Handley. Learning to Like Life: A Tribute to Lowell Bennion
Zach HutchinsReview: Traveling “the undiscovered country” Stephen Carter, ed. Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death
Susan Elizabeth HoweRemember Me: Discursive Needlework and the Sewing Sampler of Patty Bartlett Sessions
Stacey DearingThere’s No Such Thing as a Gospel Culture
Gina ColvinCan Mormons be White in America?
Robert A. GoldbergFrom the Pulpit: Why I Stay
John Gustav-WrathallDialogue 50.2 (Summer 2017): 209–213
“I was excommunicated from the Church in 1986. I am a gay man in a twenty-five-year-long relationship with my husband Göran Gustav-Wrathall. We were legally married in July 2008. Over the years, people have asked me how it is that I could consider myself Mormon if I’m not a member of the Church. What covenants are there for me to renew on Sunday morning, sitting in the pews, as I pass, without partaking, the sacrament tray to the person sitting next to me? To the extent that there is a relationship between me and God that has the Church as a context, real as it is to me, it is invisible to outside observers. That’s okay. I stay because I cannot deny what I know.”
To the Single Men of the Church
Derk KoldewynWhat the Church Means to People Like Me
Richard D. PollA Translation of the Apparent Source of the Book of Abraham
Klaus BaerMormons in the Executive Suite
Mark W. CannonArt and the Church
Maida WithersManhattan Faces
Mary AllenMormons as City Planners
Charles L. SellersThe Challenge of Secularism
James L. ClaytonVilla Mae
Vivian H. OlsenA Time of Transition
Renee P. CarlsonA Personal Commitment to Civil Equality
Daniel H. GagonReflections at Hopkins House
Belle CluffMormons in the Urban Community
William H. RobinsonMormons in the Secular City: An Introduction
Garth L. MangumWhy the Coleville Tabernacle Had to be Razed: Principles Governing Mormon Architecture
Mark P. LeoneMormon World View and American Culture
John L. SorensonThe Gospel, Mormonism and American Culture
Robert A. ReesAmong the Mormons
Ralph W. HansenPhrenology Among the Mormons
Gary L. BunkerAmong the Mormons
Ralph W. HansenAmong the Mormons
Ralph W. HansenAmong the Mormons
Ralph W. HansenAmong the Mormons
Ralph W. HansenBirth Control Among the Mormons: Introduction to an Insistent Question
Lester E. Bush Jr.The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing an abortion; a woman convicted of…
Mormonism in the Nineteen-Seventies: The Popular Perception
Stephen W. StathisIllustrated Periodical Images of Mormons, 1850-1860
Gary L. BunkerMy Fifty Years in Journalism
Merlo J. PuseyFrom Antagonism to Acceptance: Mormons and the Silver Screen
Richard Alan NelsonNostrums in the Newsroom
Paul SwensonThe Church as Broadcaster
Fred C. EsplinThe Church as Media Proprietor
Milton HollsteinEquality and Plain Living: Building the City of God, Community and Cooperation Among the Mormons
James L. ClaytonAmong the Mormons
Stephen W. StathisGambit in the Throbs of a Ten-Year-Old Swamp: Confessions of a Dialogue Intern
Karen Marguerite MoloneyThe Rise and Fall of Courage, an Independent RLDS Journal
William D. RussellAlthough Courage struck a responsive chord in quite a few hearts, its readers did not support it to the extent the editors had expected. Appealing only to a minority in a small church, and without either sufficient…
Windmill Jousting and Other Madness: Century 2
Randy JohnsonNew Messenger and Advocate
Kevin BarnhurstSunstone
Scott KenneyA Wider Sisterhood
Claudia L. BushmanBYU Studies, How She Is
Laura WadleyGospel by the Month
David BriscoeAmong the Mormons
Stephen W. StathisAmong the Mormons
Stephen W. StathisAmong the Mormons
Stephen W. StathisContraceptive Use Among Mormons, 1965-75
Tim B. Heaton“Among the Mormons”
Kenneth E. EbleMove Over, Fortune “500”: The Mormon Corporate Empire by John Heinerman and Anson Shupe
William P. MacKinnonJack-Mormons
Edward A. GearyI Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: East Meets West
Wilma OdellI Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: Through a Stained-Glass Window
Juliana Boerio-GoatesI Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: “To Celebrate the Marriage Feast Which Has No End”
Wendy S. LeeI Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: Introductory Remarks
Karen Marguerite MoloneyA Jew Among Mormons
Steve SiporinMormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: Ethnicity, Diversity, and Conflict
Helen PapanikolasMormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: A Reorganized Church Perspective
Richard P. HowardMormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: An Australian Viewpoint
Marjorie NewtonMormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: Mormonism and the Challenge of the Mainline
Marie CornwallMormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: Viewing Mormonism as Mainline
Mario S. De PillisTwentieth-Century Polygamy and Fundamentalist Mormons in Southern Utah
Ken DriggsDriggs shares the story of how in between the First and Second Manifestos, polygamy was still happening in secret.
In Their Own Behalf: The Politicization of Mormon Women and the 1870 Franchise
Lola Van WagenenBook of Mormon Stories That My Teachers Kept From Me
Neal ChandlerGlimmers and Glitches in Zion
B. J. FoggSelective Bibliography on African-American and Mormons 1830-1990
Chester Lee HawkinsBibliography of African Americans role in the church from 1830-1990.
Speaking for Themselves: LDS Ethnic Groups Oral History Project
Jessie L. EmbryAn oral history project on ethnic wards and branches.
Ethnic Groups and the LDS Church
Jessie L. EmbryA history of ethnic wards and branches as the church struggled with integration vs. segregation of immigrant communities.
Living Histories: Selected Biographies from the Manhattan First Ward
Dian SaderupWomen Alone: The Economic and Emotional Plight of Early LDS Women
Linda ThatcherLatter-day Myths About Counseling and Psychotherapy
Mark Edward KoltkoBefore the Wall Fell: Mormons in the German Democratic Republic, 1945-89
Douglas F. ToblerA New Kind of Abuse: The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse
J. Frederic Voros Jr.Liberal Spirituality: A Personal Odyssey
L. Jackson NewellDialogue Toward Forgiveness: A Supporting View
Richard D. PollThe LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology
Lavina Fielding AndersonMale-Male Intimacy among Nineteenth-century Mormons: A Case Study
D. Michael QuinnDialogue 28.4 (Winter 1995): 105–119
This was a prelude to his book-length treatment Same-Sex Dynamics in 19th C. America: A Mormon Example, that looked at “intimacy” broadly defined, before the rise of homophobia in the post-WWII period. It is a fascinating study of changing norms and practices that once allowed for a huge range of bonding practices between people of the same-sex. Quinn himself had come out in the course of researching this article and the book a few years before, and this work remains influential.
Did Christ Pay for Our Sins?
Dennis R. PotterMormonism and Determinism
Blake T. OstlerSocial Forces that Imperil the Family
Tim B. HeatonWas Jesus a Feminist?
Todd M. ComptonSojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons by Jan Shipps
Bradley D. WoodworthThoughts on Mormonism, Evolution, and Brigham Young University
Keith E. NormanWell, I was raised i n a rather unscientific environment , a little farming community.
The Long Honeymoon: Jan Shipps among the Mormons
Klaus J. HansenYou Can Count on the Fingers of Your One Hand the Reasons
Darrell SpencerThe Divine-Infusion Theory: Rethinking the Atonement
Jacob MorganPremortal Spirits: Implications for Cloning, Abortion, Evolution, and Extinction
Kent C. CondiePerhaps no other moral issue divides the American public more than abortion. In part, the controversy hinges on the question of when the spirit enters the body. If a spirit were predestined for a given…
Clyde Forsberg’s Equal Rites and the Exoticizing of Mormonism
John-Charles DuffyChanging Faiths Gave My Sons Hope
Ann M. JohnsonMy Mission Decision
Henry Landon MilesMore Musings on Motherhood
Tracie A. LambOnce upon July
David Clark KnowltonTrial of Faith
John Gustav-WrathallIn 2007 there is an essay by John Gustav Wrathal, a man who was excommunicated in 1986 and remains in a relationship, now married to his long-time partner. But he is also deeply committed to…