How Polygamy Affects Society

Last updated on: November 28, 2016 at 11:00 am By Lindsay Hansen Park

As part of our series of guests post, Penelope Lane continues her argument on the harms of polygamy. If you would like to submit a guest post, contact me at [email protected] Guest post by Penelope Lane In my last post, I detailed the ways in which polygamy (polygyny) harms women and girls. Some dismiss my views as merely an extrapolation of my own experiences into a blanket condemnation of polygamy in its entirety. However, I would counteract that criticism by... Read more

How Polygamy Harms Women: A Personal Response

Last updated on: September 27, 2017 at 3:08 pm By Lindsay Hansen Park

As mentioned before, I am offering this blog as a platform for multiple voices speaking on Mormon Fundamentalist issues. Today, we host a guest blogger Penelope Lane. By Penelope Lane: I was recently reading an article that laid out why India (even with its large Muslim population) wants to ban polygamy. This is evidently because of the nation’s commitment to gender equality and female dignity. Yet somehow—and it seems absurd—while countries that have experienced polygamy for generations are gradually abolishing its practice (already... Read more

10 Things Polygamy Gave Mormonism

Last updated on: November 30, 2017 at 10:14 am By Lindsay Hansen Park

Since completing the Year of Polygamy project, (a podcast series where I rely on the works of the top scholars in Mormonism to tell the history of Mormon Plural Marriage), I am often asked how polygamy affects the LDS church today. Polygamy has shaped the LDS church and Mormonism so much that I still believe the LDS church is a “Polygamy Church.” Saying so often offends my fellow Latter-day Saint friends who are quick to tell me that we no longer practice polygamy.... Read more

Other Sheep I Have: Fear

Last updated on: February 13, 2017 at 2:36 pm By Lindsay Hansen Park

In an effort to show just how similar Mormon Fundamentalists are to, well, Mormons- I will be starting a series on this blog, which I will update now and again. Each time, I will take a different word or theme and ask individuals from different faith traditions within the Restoration to discuss how they experienced or would interpret the concept. I will likely try to let them speak for themselves and in their own words. The rules are- I give... Read more

Who Are the Real Mormons?

Last updated on: August 24, 2017 at 9:55 am By Lindsay Hansen Park

(This post is taken from notes I used during my UVU talk on April 12, 2016) When the Mormon Saints began their departure from Nauvoo on February 4, 1846 with the intention of heading to the Rocky Mountains, the journey took them to places they couldn’t imagine. It would be a journey that would test the spiritual and physical development of the Mormon people, shape the Mormon culture, and forge the fires of modern Mormonism. Because of rain and a late... Read more