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Heavenly Mother is a cherished doctrine among many Latter-day Saints.
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Lara CandlandGot Wheat? Christopher James Blythe, Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse
Amy HoytGrowing up in the LDS faith, my parents always dutifully had large quantities of wheat, rice, beans, and all other manner of food stored—food we never ate in our daily lives. While they rarely discussed…
Ceci n’est pas une Mormon Studies Book Peter Coviello, Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
Joanna BrooksWhen I first sidled up to Make Yourselves Gods, I did so in the spirit of the Mormon Creed: “Mind your own business and let everybody else do likewise” (Trademark: 1842). Yes, I was suspicious.…
The Casting Out of Spirits
Jeanine Eyre BeeI don’t know why they’ve asked someone else to play the organ. I’ve been playing the organ in this ward for forty-eight years. When I first learned to play, I had to pump the air…
Getting the Cosmology Right
Roger TerrySporadically over the past few years I have been writing a personal document titled “What I Believe.” The reason for this is twofold. First, as I have learned more, my beliefs have shifted. This is…
The Words and Worlds of Smith and Brown Samuel Morris Brown, Joseph Smith’s Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism
Jonathan A. StapleyIn 1887 Albert Michelson and Edward Morley performed what was intended to be the crowning accomplishment of physics—an experiment to determine how movement through the luminiferous ether changed the speed of light. What they found…
Spirit of Pentecost
Samuel WolfeInstead of unremitting lucha libre, I desired détente between my sexuality and birth faith. A gap between graduation from law school and starting work opened a unique space for spiritual odyssey. I resumed attending church…
Thoughts on the Sacrament During a Pandemic
Lori DavisPodcast version of this Personal Essay. The sacrament feels like a medical procedure these days. It’s passed by men, not boys. I wondered about that requirement until I looked around the chapel at our scanty,…
Review: “Babbling on toward Ephemeral Patterns” Patrick Madden, Disparates
Jonathon PennyAlphabetize yourkarma, sever your qigong,jinx your wifi code. Disparates, 134 I want to suggest that Disparates is less disparate than it claims to be, that there is a running theme or a coherent message that…
Rubik’s Palimpsest: Searching for My Indigeneity
Daniel Glenn CallFrom my youth I was blessed with a God-shaped hole in my identity. I knew I came from somewhere, that my ancestors were whole and bore a cultural armor that it was my right to…
Confession
Sylvette WolfeArchive 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.
Pray Without Ceasing
Boyd Jay PetersenThe scriptures often admonish us to pray continuously. Note that I said “continuously,” not “continually.” “Continually” means repeated with interruptions, but “continuously” means without interruptions. Paul tells the saints in Thessalonica to “pray without ceasing”…
Elegy for the Eaten
Madison DanielsTo the Ones whoAwakened the Universe with a wordAnd set the Cosmos afire. God-Mom and God-Dad— Stretching forth our hands,We pluck from the Tree of Life.For our mortal lives to be sustained,creaturely blood must be…
A Blessing for Starting Over
Joanna BrooksFirst, bless the burst of anger; its force will get you free. Then, bless the tears that follow; they will provide new sight. Bless your bare feet as you put them on the earth. Run.…
Three Dogs in the Afterlife
Luisa Perkinsthat same sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there ª waits while ● gets her bearings. It always takes a little while, he says. ● lifts her spirit nose, trying and…
Performative Theology: Not Such a New Thing
James E. FaulconerA movement called “scriptural theology” has been part of academic theology for some time now, since the 1980s or earlier.[1] In spite of that, with some exceptions I will note, it has had little impact on…
What the Second Coming Means to People Like Me
Kim McCallCertain Places
William MorrisListen to the audio version here.
The Nape of the Neck
Keira ShaeThe Blessing I Took
Lindsay DentonDealing with Difficult Questions
Roger TerryBeing, A Household World
David Charles GoreBodies Material and Bodies Textual: Conflation of Woman and Animal in the Wilderness
Sarah Nickel MooreThe Earth and the Inhabitants Thereof (Non-)Humans in the Divine Household
Michael HaycockReading the Word: Spirit Materiality in the Mountain Landscapes of Nan Shepherd
Rachel Gilman“To Restore the Physical World”: The Body of Christ, the Redemption of the Natural World, and Mormonism’s Environmental Dilemma
Gary EttariDominion in the Anthropocene
Christopher OscarsonReview: Crossings Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye. Crossings: A Bald Asian American Latter-day Saint Woman Scholar’s Ventures through Life, Death, Cancer & Motherhood (Not Necessarily in that Order).
Allison Hong MerrillThe Sacrifice
Steven L. PeckWhat Shall We See?
Samuel M. BrownReasonably Good Tidings of Greater- than-Average Joy Grant Hardy, ed. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, Maxwell Institute Study Edition.
Michael AustinSweater
Theric JepsonTimo’s Blessing
Peter de SchweinitzA Personal Conversion David C. Dollahite. God’s Tender Mercies: Sacred Experiences of a Mormon Convert.
Doug GibsonExcerpts from Before Us Like a Land of Dreams
Karin Anderson EnglandQueer Polygamy
Blaire OstlerDialogue 52.1 (Spring 2019): 33–43
Ostler addresses the problems with what she terms the “Standard Model of Polygamy.” She discusses how these problems might be resolved if it is put into a new type of model that she terms “Queer Polygamy.”
The Mother Tree: Understanding the Spiritual Root of Our Ecological Crisis
Kathryn SonntagWell-Red
Tait R. JensenHeavenly Mother: The Mother of All Women
Blaire OstlerDialogue 51.4 (Winter 2018): 171-174
Heavenly Mother is a cherished doctrine among many Latter-day Saints.
Her unique esthetic of feminine deity offers Latter-day Saint women a
trajectory for godhood—the ultimate goal of Mormon theology.
Heretics in Truth: Love, Faith, and Hope as the Foundation for Theology, Community, and Destiny
Terryl L. GivensOn Solace
Fiona GivensFrom the Pulpit: Creating a Zion Church
Molly BennionReview: Priesthood Power Jonathan A. Stapley. The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology download
Gary James BergeraRoundtable: The Black Cain in White Garments
Melodie JacksonJackson explains “The Church refused to grant the Black body whole recognition and divinity. To Nephi, I was not fair and delightsome. To Joseph, I was a violator of the most sacred principles of society,…
Roundtable: Shifting Tides: A Clarion Call for Inclusion and Social Justice
Cameron McCoy“What can we do to help and make a difference in the fight for racial and social justice?” McCoy responds to the BYU students who asked these questions which he brought up in an annual…
Review: Lost in Translation Adam S. Miller. The Sun Has Burned My Skin: A Modest Paraphrase of Solomon’s Song of Songs
Robert A. ReesFrom the Pulpit: I’ve Got a Feeling
Meg ConleyReview: “Twisted Apples”: Lance Larsen Takes on Prose Poetry Lance Larsen. What the Body Knows
Darlene YoungReview: Nothing by Itself George B. Handley. American Fork
Sheldon LawrenceReview: Expertly Built: Stories within Stories Tim Wirkus. The Infinite Future
Gabriel Gonzalez N.Personal Voices: Cry for the Gods: Grief and Return
Neil LongoPersonal Voices: Three Sealings
Stephen Carter“A Portion of God’s Light”: Mormonism and Religious Pluralism
Brian D. BirchFrom 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.”
Review: Fresh Honesty in Authentic Mormon Identity Jamie Zvirzdin, ed. Fresh Courage Take: New Directions by Mormon Women
Maxine HanksReview: Old Words, New Work: Reclamation and Remembrance
Jenny WebbReview: Baring Imperfect Human Truths Holly Welker, ed. Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage
Elizabeth OstlerReview: The Dean of Mormon History”: One Viewpoint Gregory A. Prince. Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History
Dennis L. LythgoeReview: Laughter, Depth, and Insight: Enid Rocks Them All Scott Hales. The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl, Parts One and Two
Steven L. PeckReview: An Honorable Testament to a Legacy Gregory A. Prince. Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History
Dallas RobbinsReview: The Garden of Enid: By a Mormonand For Mormons Scott Hales. The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl, Parts One and Two
Brittany Long OlsenReview: A Candid and Dazzling Conversation Patrick Madden. Sublime Physick: Essays
Joe PlickaReview: The History that Dares Speak Its Name J. Seth Anderson. LGBT Salt Lake
Gary James BergeraSeth Anderson’s slim book, part of Arcadia Publishing’s multi-volume Images of Modern America photographic series, is much more than an important new contribution to Utah and LDS history. It is a revelation— a surprising, unexpected…
Review: Attempts to Be Whole Scott Abbott. Immortal for Quite Some Time
Scott Russell MorrisReview: The Truth is in the Middle Stephen Carter and Jett Atwood. Mormonism for Beginners
Cristina RosettiReview: Speaking for Herself Ashley Mae Hoiland. One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God
Glen NelsonReview: Invisible Men / Invincible Women Eric Freeze. Invisible Men: Stories
Lisa Rumsey HarrisBishop Johansen Rescues a Lost Soul: A Tale of Pleasant Grove
Steven L. PeckNew Voices: Flaming
Craig MangumHow to Build a Paradox: Making the New Jerusalem
Kristine HaglundDeus Mea Lux Est: A Mormon Among Catholics
Zina Nibley PetersenInto a Foreign Land: A Catholic among Mormons
Polly AirdAbundant Grace: The Humanness of Catholics and Latter-day Saints as a Basis for Friendship and Collaboration
Daniel P. Dwyer OFMOrdination and Blessing
Robert A. ReesMormon/Catholic Dialogue: Thinking About Ways Forward
Matthew N. SchmalzLeveling the Earth, Expanding the Circle
Eunice McMurrayReview: Conversation Begins Stephen H. Webb and Alonzo L. Gaskill. Catholic and Mormon: A Theological Conversation
Joseph GilesReview: Peck’s Peak Steven L. Peck.Wandering Realities: The Mormonish Short Fiction of Steven L. PeckSteven L. Peck.Evolving Faith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist
Michael AustinReview: Finding Mormon Theology Again Terryl L. Givens.Wrestling the Angel: TheFoundations of Mormon Thought:Cosmos, God, Humanity
Taylor G. PetreyReview: A Not-So-Innocent Abroad Craig Harline.Way Lower than theAngels: The Pretty Clearly TroubledBut Not Even Close to Tragic Confessionsof a Real Live Mormon Missionary
Rosalynde WelchTheology for a New Age
Karl SandbergFree Agency and Freedom — Some Misconceptions
Garth L. MangumAn Honorable Surrender: The Experience of Conversion
Carlos S. Whiting“Man” and the Telefinalist Trap
Kent E. RobsonThe Moral Dimensions of Man: A Scriptural View
Rodney TurnerA Mormon Concept of Man
George T. BoydBoy Diving Through Moss — Poetry
Dennis SmithMental Gas — Poetry
Eliza R. SnowThe Church in Latin American: Progress and Challenge
Wesley W. Craig Jr.A New Look at Repentance: The Gift of Repentance
Lowell BennionA New Look at Repentance: The Miracle of Forgiveness
Richard CracroftA New Look at Repentance: Some Thoughts on Repentance
Matthew CowleyA New Look at Repentance: Guilt: A Psychiatrist’s Viewpoint
Louis G. MoenchA New Look at Repentance: Encounter
Douglas D. AlderWanted: Additional Outlets for Idealism
Gary B. HansenNew Acts of Poetry: Space in the Sage ; What You Feel, I Share ; Speak to Me
Mary Lythgoe BradfordResponses and Perspectives: Lester Bush’s Historical Overview: Other Perspectives
Gordon C. ThomassonResponding to Bush, Thomasson wrote in response to Lester Bush’s Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Review which that article caused him to reflect on what he believes and so it became to be very valuable…
Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview
Lester E. Bush Jr.Lester Bush’s landmark article tells the most comprehensive history of the church’s teachings on race and priesthood, destabilizing the idea that it originated with Joseph Smith or had been consistently taught.
On the Precipice: Three Mormon Poets: Barbed Wire: Poetry and Photographs of the West
Edward A. GearySacrament of Terror: Violence in the Poetry of Clinton F. Larsen
Thomas D. SchwartzPersonal Conscience and Priesthood Authority
L. Jackson NewellA Mighty Change of Heart
Edward R. HoganLDS Approaches to the Holy Bible
Anthony A. HutchinsonDiscussion Continued: The Sequel to the Roberts/Smith/Talmage Affair
Jeffrey E. KellerThe Idea of Pre-Existence in the Development of Mormon Thought
Blake T. OstlerThe Adam-God Doctrine
David John Buerger“Moonbeams From a Larger Lunacy”: Poetry in the Reorganization
Paul EdwardsThis study addresses poetry within the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and defines an RLDS poet as someone who belongs to the RLDS church and who has published poetry in some…
The New Mormon Poetry: The Seventh Day by Lewis Home
Dennis ClarkThe High Price of Poetry
Glenn Willett ClarkThe Ward Teacher
Edward A. GearyGod of Our Fathers
Alan MeyerThree Generations of Mormon Poetry: A zipper of haze; Tinder; Christmas Voices
R. A. ChristmasInadvertent Disclosure: Autobiography in the Poetry of Eliza R. Snow
Maureen Ursenbach BeecherEternity Be Damned? The Impact of Interfaith Vows: Same Religion, Different Churches
Carrie A. MilesEternity Be Damned? The Impact of Interfaith Vows: Two Faiths, Two Baptisms
Richard L. PoppEternity Be Damned? The Impact of Interfaith Vows: From Here to Eternity?
Leona MattoniEternity Be Damned? The Impact of Interfaith Vows: One View of Interfaith Marriage
Karen LewisEternity Be Damned? The Impact of Interfaith Vows: Eternity with a Dry-Land Mormon
Levi S. PetersonEternity Be Damned? The Impact of Interfaith Vows: Introductory Remarks
Karen Marguerite MoloneyBaptism for the Dead: Comparing RLDS and LDS Perspectives
Grant UnderwoodDialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 99–105
Underwood discusses why two religions who share the same exact upbringing have different opinions about the temple rituals.
The Concept of Grace in Christian Thought
Blake T. OstlerHeart of the Fathers
Thomas F. RogersA Teenager’s Mormon Battalion Journal: The Gold Rush Diary of Azariah Smith edited by David L. Bigler
Alan Kent PowellA New Synthesis: Exiles in a Land of Liberty: Mormons in America, 1830-1846 by Kenneth H. Winn
M. Guy BishopMormonism’s First Theologian: The Essential Parley P. Pratt foreword by Peter L. Crawley
David L. BiglerUtah’s Original “”Mr. Republican””: Reed Smoot: Apostle in Politics by Milton R. Merrill
John SillitoA Poetic Legacy: The Owl on the Aerial by Clarice Short
Bethany ChaffinClawson and the Mormon Experience: The Making of a Mormon Apostle: The Story of Rudger Clawson
David Rich LewisDelusion as an Exceedingly Fine Art: Bones by Franklin Fisher
Lavina Fielding AndersonTwo Covenant Systems: Promises Made to the Father: Mormon Covenant Organization by Rex Eugene Cooper
Marianne PerciaccanteA Song Worth Singing: Mormonism and Music: A History by Michael Hicks
Elaine ThatcherGlimmers and Glitches in Zion
B. J. FoggBeing Mormon: The Elkton Branch, 1976-81
Susan B. TaberA Closer Focus: Challenges in Doing Local History
Fayone B. WillesAIDS: The Twentieth-Century Leprosy
Steven J. SainsburyJudaism and Mormonism: Paradigm and Supersession
Seymour CainHeavenly Father or Chairman of the Board?: How Organizational Metaphors Can Define and Confine Religious Experience
John TarjanOn Spectral Evidence
Eugene EnglandDissent in the Church: Toward a Workable Definition
James E. ChapmanA Response to Paul Toscano’s “A Plea to the Leadership of the Church: Choose Love Not Power”
Elbert Eugene PeckA Plea to the Leadership of the Church: Choose Love Not Power
Paul James ToscanoLiberal 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 AndersonFaith, Hope, and Charity
Mary ClydeEaster Service
Steve PetersonEpiphany
Tory C. AndersonThe Unexpected Choice
Linda Paxton Greer“I Do Remember How It Smelled Heavenly”: Mormon Aspects of May Swenson’s Poetry
Susan Elizabeth HoweW.H. Chamberlin and the Quest for a Mormon Theology
James M. McLachlanZion-building: Pondering a Paradigm: Working Toward Zion: Principles of the United Order for the Modern World
T. Allen LambertThe Celestial Kingdom
Susan BurdettLuke 7:37
Kathryn KimballGive Me That Old Time Testimony Meeting
Glen J. HettingerHosanna
Sheryl Cragun DameStealing the Reaper’s Grim: The Challenge of Dying Well
Paul SwensonAn Expanded Definition of Priesthood? Some Present and Future Consequences
Margaret WheatleyMormon Women and Priesthood
Nadine HansenMormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview
Lester E. Bush Jr.Seers, Savants and Evolution: The Uncomfortable Interface
Duane E. JefferyThe Making of a Mormon Myth: The 1844 Transfiguration of Brigham Young
Richard Van WagonerNauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report
George D. SmithThe Development of the Mormon Temple Endowment Ceremony
David John BuergerDialogue 34.1 (Spring/Summer 2001): 87
However, the temple has maintained its central role in the lives of
Latter-day Saints by being able to create a point of intersection between
human desires for righteousness and the divine willingness to be bound
by covenant. This point has remained constant, even though emphases
in the church have changed over time, also bringing change to the endowment ceremony itself
Selling the Chevrolet: A Moral Exercise (vol. 16, no. 3, Fall 1983)
Clifton Holt JolleyTwo Trains and a Dream
Eugene EnglandThe Weeping God of Mormonism
Eugene EnglandOut in the Shop: In Memory of Grandpa
Candace KearlOn Fidelity, Polygamy, and Celestial Marriage (vol. 20, no. 4, Winter 1987)
Eugene EnglandBlessing the Chevrolet (vol. 9, no. 3, Fall 1975)
Eugene EnglandEugene England: Our Brother in Christ
Robert A. ReesA Dining Room Table
Allison PingreeA Brief Tour of England: My Year with Gene
Stephen CarterBlood Sports
Garth N. JonesSong of Shiblon
Nathan F. ChristensenLast Supper
Stephen CarterGod, Man, and Satan in The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Bradley D. WoodworthWithout Mercy: Neil LaBute as Mormon Artist
R. W. RasbandRighteousness Express: Riding the PG&R
Molly BennionAlive in Mormon Poetry
Danielle Beazer DubraskyPoetry Matters in Mormon Culture
Robert HughesWicks, Modems, and the Winds of War
Karen Marguerite MoloneyA Tribute for Service Well Rendered
Molly BennionA Motherless Son Sings the Blues
Danielle Beazer DubraskyNot a Coveyesque Self-Help Book
Mark T. DeckerThe Province of the Extreme
Stacy BurtonSalvation
Laura McCune-PoplinAt Bay
Lisa Torcasso DowningAn Interview with David Sjodahl King
Val G. HemmingDeath to the Death of Poetry!: The Art is Alive and Kicking in Mormon Circles — and in Mainstream American Culture
Lisa Madsen De RubilarWithout Number
Julie J. NicholsRoses
Douglas ThayerLike the Lilies of the Field
John Bennionpoetry on the ‘fridge door
Simon Peter EggertsenThe 1948 Secret Marriage of Louis J. Barlow: Origins of FLDS Placement Marriage
Marianne T. WatsonWatson explains how the secret marriage of Louis J. Barlow to a 15-year-old girl caused a major rift among fundamentalists. Today’s fundamentalist members are still experiencing the effects of that marriage.
Loose in the Stacks: A Half-Century with the Utah War and Its Legacy
William P. MacKinnonThe Theology of Desire
Cetti CherniakEspecially the Friends
Bruce YoungMy Personal Brand of Weirdness
Erika MunsonHomeless Memories; So Many Firsts
Heather CrawSpiritually Housed; In a Magical Place
Natalie WilliamsWonderful Small Things
Christina Kimball IngersollHolding a Master Key
Chris KimballTreasures
Linda Hoffman KimballAnchored with Meaning
Mary B. JohnstonSo Glad, So Sad …; My Spiritual Home
Rachel PauliFalling in Immediate Love; Training Sessions
Dawn RoanAlways Sacred; Not Your Typical Mormon Space
Samuel M. BrownWe Should Do A Study
Claudia L. BushmanHermeneutic Adventures in Home Teaching: Mary and Richard Rorty
Scott AbbottDivine Darwinism, Comprehensible Christianity, and the Atheist’s Wager: Richard Rorty on Mormonism—an Interview with Mary V. Rorty and Patricia Rorty
Stephen T. CranneyHidden Treasures
Dana Haight CattaniReview: Too Long Ignored
Polly AirdReview: Characters to Care About
Christian HarrisonReview: Re-Creating the Bible
Dallas RobbinsReview: The Philosophy of Religion Reconsidered
Tony ClarkEl Problema del Dolor/The Problem of Pain
Christian AndersonIn Lieu of History: Mormon Monuments and the Shaping of Memory
Barry LagaWives and Other Women: Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Lives of John Q. Cannon, Frank J. Cannon, and Abraham H. Cannon
Kenneth L. Cannon IIJoseph Smith’s Letter from Liberty Jail as an Epistolary Rhetoric
David Charles GoreThe Original Length of the Scroll of Hôr
Andrew Cook Dialogue 43.4 (Winter 2010): 1–42
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a robust methodology that eliminates the guesswork in determining winding locations by visual inspection of crease marks or lacunae features, and to determine whether the missing interior section of the Hôr scroll could have been long enough to accommodate the Book of Abraham. Fortunately, this is a question that can be definitively answered by examining the physical characteristics of the extant portions of the scroll. The haste and greed of Michael Chandler provide the key to unlocking this mystery.
A Sacrament of Stewardship
Kate Holbrook“Take No Thought”
Adam S. MillerImmortal for Quite Some Time (an excerpt)
Scott AbbottThe Discursive Construct of Virtual Angels, Temples, and Religious Worship: Mormon Theology and Culture in Second Life
David W. ScottMormon and Queer at the Crossroads
Alan Michael WilliamsDialogue 44.1 (Spring 2011): 53–84
This essay explores conflicting messages within LDS teaching on LGBT rights, when it both opposed same-sex marriage and in the wake of Prop 8 also came out in support of other LGBT rights that display both wrath and mercy. It explores a theory of LDS teachings on homosexuality along these lines, as well as the context of shifting norms around sexual identity.
The Early Mormon Chain of Belonging
Samuel M. BrownScry Me a River
Rob FergusNot Just Buchanan’s Blunder
Polly AirdImage and Reality in the Utah Zion
Benjamin E. ParkTo Bless and Sanctify: Three Meditations on the Sacrament
Kris WrightOf Vital Questions: Robert L. Millet, ed. By What Authority? The Vital Question of Religious Authority in Christianity
Joseph SpencerHarrell’s Mettle: Jack Harrell. A Sense of Order and Other Stories
Karen RosenbaumPomp, Circumstance, and Controversy: Richard E. Bennett, Susan Easton Black, and Donald Q. Cannon. The Nauvoo Legion in Illinois: A History of the Mormon Militia, 1841–1846
William P. MacKinnonImmortal for Quite Some Time
Scott Abbott“Wholesome, Hallowed, and Gracious”: Confronting the Winter’s Night
Richard F. Haglund Jr.Philip Lindholm, ed., Latter-day Dissent: At the Crossroads of Intellectual Inquiry and Ecclesiastical Authority
Stephen McIntyreCharles Harrell, “This Is My Doctrine”: The Development of Mormon Theology
Matthew BowmanDavid F. Holland, Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America
Samuel M. BrownScaling Never
Carys Brayfrom “A Paris Journal”
Lance LarsenMormonism in Western Society: Three Futures
Frederick Mark GedicksToward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology
Taylor G. PetreyDialogue 44.4 (Winter 2011): 106–141
From Editor Taylor Petrey: “Toward a Post-heterosexual Mormon Theology” was actually the first major article I ever published. I did not know what to expect, but it ended up being a widely discussed piece, accessed tens of thousands of times. To this day I still receive notes of appreciation for this article.