The Restoration of Primitive Christianity and the emergence of Mormonism as a world religion is a story worthy of an epic poem. Now Mormon poet Ron Wilcox has written the first books of such an epic, with Joseph Smith as the latter-day odysseus-achilles hero at the center. Wilcox’s poem captures Joseph’s soul and the beginnings …
Speaker: Karen Marguerite Moloney
Sibbrich’s Tale
In this portion of a longer memoir that examines my connections to the lives of lineal ancestors in sixteenth-century northern Germany, I draw on historical events to imagine what life would have been like for the daughter of a ferryman ancestor named Edde Feerman. Records of the time primarily document the lives of the region’s …
SL09312 Panel: In Memoriam: Truman G. Madsen
Truman Madsen left a significant imprint on Mormon theology and philosophy. Come hear from friends, colleagues, and former students about the lessons learned from this influential Mormon thinker. Following panelists’ remarks, audience members will also have time to share their remembrances. Karen Marguerite Moloney, Bill Heersink, Claudia L. Bushman, Donald Q. Cannon, Jake Zollinger, Charles …
THE FERRYMAN’S DAUGHTER, PART 1: THE INSISTENT CALL OF MY MITOCHONDRIAL DNA
THE FERRYMAN’S DAUGHTER, PART 1: THE INSISTENT CALL OF MY MITOCHONDRIAL DNA While DNA science challenges such Mormon beliefs as Israelite ancestry for Native Americans, it promises fresh pursuits for genealogists. Particularly suggestive is our ability, publicized by Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes’s Seven Daughters of Eve, to track mitochondrial DNA mutations to European “clan mothers”, …
THE INSISTENT CALL OF MY MITOCHONDRIAL DNA: ONE WOMAN’S PRIMER IN FEMINIST GENEALOGY
While DNA science challenges such Mormon beliefs as Israelite ancestry for Native Americans, it promises fresh pursuits for genealogists. Particularly suggestive is our ability, notably publicized by Cambridge geneticist Bryan Sykes’s Seven Daughters of Eve, to track mitochondrial DNA mutations to seven European “clan mothers”, and beyond them, to African ancestresses. Traditionally overshadowed by surname-conferring …
THE INSISTENT CALL OF MY MITOCHONDRIAL DNA: ONE WOMAN’S PRIMER IN FEMINIST GENEALOGY
While DNA science challenges such Mormon beliefs as Israelite ancestry for Native Americans, it promises fresh pursuits for genealogists. Particularly suggestive is our ability, notably publicized by Cambridge geneticist Bryan Sykes’s Seven Daughters of Eve, to track mitochondrial DNA mutations to seven European “clan mothers”, and beyond them, to African ancestresses. Traditionally overshadowed by surname-conferring …
9/11, Mormons, and the Winds of War: Recent Dialogue Authors Publishing Twenty-First Century Peace
The events of 9/11 divide us as utterly from the previous century as the atom bomb demarcated its two halves. Panel participants, all authors of recent or forthcoming essays in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, draw from and supplement these essays with fresh insights on Latter-day Saint responsibility in this new era. After all, …
Panel. Civil Disobedience and Latter-day Saints: Personal Voices
SL03091, This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. It also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revelation reversing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy of …
The Magnificent Cause of Being
While on my mission in Taiwan, I dropped a letter off my balcony onto my neighbor’s kitchen roof. While trying to retrieve the letter, I fell through the roof and broke a rib. This incident provides the controlling metaphor for my forthcoming book, The Rib Cage: the lush, edenic paradise of inland Taiwan; the rib, …
A Tribute to Arthur Henry King, 1910-2000: Scholar, Poet, Mentor, Friend
A Tribute to Arthur Henry King, 1910-2000: Scholar, Poet, Mentor, Friend This panel commemorates the life, work, and influence of a unique British convert: Arthur Henry King, Professor Emeritus of English at Brigham Young University. Panelists will examine his biography; provide an overview of his poetry and research; and recall his role as teacher, mentor, …