Joseph At Christmas I became a mother of daughters in the midst of a heightened feminist awareness. Teaching them of this awareness and helping them develop their own seemed a natural part of being their mother. Then my son was born, and I wondered whether I should teach him the same way I did my …
Event: Salt Lake Symposium 2000
The Smoke Still Lingers: The Mark Hofmann Affair Fifteen Years Later
The Smoke Still Lingers: The Mark Hofmann Affair Fifteen Years Later In 1985, Mark Hofmann killed two innocent people with pipe bombs he had constructed in an attempt to cover growing suspicions and uneasiness related to his dealings in Mormon documents. As investigations eventually exposed Hofmann as a forger and murderer, the story does not …
We Want to Put your Ideas Into Print: A How-to-Guide for Publishing With the Mormon Press
We Want to Put your Ideas Into Print: A How-to-Guide for Publishing With the Mormon Press Is your essay, manuscript, or poem still sitting on your desk? Have you not put pen to paper because you don’t know how to get it published? If so, this session is for you! Editors and publishers of Dialogue, …
Theology and Christology Through the Lens of a Little Couplet
Theology and Christology Through the Lens of a Little Couplet In the King Follett Discourse, Joseph Smith taught that God interferes in human affairs because: we are his children; he was once as we are now; and he wants us to become as he now is. This presentation will elaborate on those teachings and explore …
Prelude to ‘Defense of Marriage’ Campaign: Civil Discrimination Against Feared or Despised Minorities
Prelude to ‘Defense of Marriage’ Campaign: Civil Discrimination Against Feared or Despised Minorities America’s “Defense of Marriage” campaign against legal unions for homosexuals is the most recent example of using lofty slogans to defend the denial of civil rights to feared or despised minorities. Catholics, Mormons, Protestants, Jews, African-Americans, Asian- Americans, Native American Indians, and …
The Power of God
The Power of God It is often said that the God of the Latter-day Saints is finite. However, this is not very often conceded by Latter-day Saints themselves. Saying that God is finite seems to be a very good starting point to solving the problem of evil, on the one hand. But, on the other …
LDS ‘Headquarters Culture’ And The Rest Of Mormonism: Past And Present
LDS ‘Headquarters Culture’ And The Rest Of Mormonism: Past And Present The Mormon doctrine of “Gathering” created a distinctive culture at the headquarters of the LDS church. During founder Joseph Smith’s life, this “headquarters culture” had pronounced differences of theology, Church practice, and culture from the experience of Mormons who lived distant from the headquarters. …
Little Mormon Magazines: Sinking, Swimming, And Treading Water
Little Mormon Magazines: Sinking, Swimming, And Treading Water The eagerness of Mormons to communicate about issues of interest has led to the launching of many special-interest periodicals, beginning in 1833 with the Evening and Morning Star in Independence, Missouri. But not all of these little ships make it past shoals to the deep ocean of …
Perusing the Decalogue
Perusing the Decalogue The Decalogue (“ten words”) is one of six similar law codes found in the Pentateuch (the “five books of Moses”). Since it constitutes the basis of Judeo-Christian-Muslim religious law, a careful reading and understanding of it is vital. The Decalogue occurs in two versions–one in Exodus, another in Deuteronomy–which (especially the events …
Dancing With the Sacred
Dancing With the Sacred The experience of dancing/playing like a child with a Shuar tribesman in Ecuador’s rainforest and not knowing he was one of the jungle’s most powerful shaman led me to questions about knowing. How much would I have missed had I “known” he was a revered Holy Man? How much do any …