Francine Russell Bennion

FRANCINE RUSSELL BENNION is retired with her husband, Robert, in Provo, Utah. Her writing has included publications in the Ensign, Sunstone, Dialogue, the AMCAP Journal, and diverse essay collections, and in translation in The Netherlands and Japan. She presented this essay and a short videotape of Natasha at the Sunstone Symposium in August 2004 in Salt Lake City, in a session sponsored by Dialogue.

One Flawed View for Another | Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Articles/Essays – Volume 16, No. 2

A silo collapsed and buried my brother in-law under tons of grain. At his funeral, a speaker offered comfort by saying that God “had need of Leon on the other side.” One of Leon’s young…

The Intellectual in the Service of the Faith?: How and Where is Intellect Needed?

Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 1

I’ve found it useful at times to think of Christ as an intellectual in the ser vice of the faith. I find that he assumes and champions the ability of persons to examine and revise…

Religion and Natasha McDonald

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 2

I AM NATASHA MCDONALD. THIS IS MY MOM AND DAD. I HAVE CEREBRAL PALSY. I THINK AND FEEL LIKE YOU DO BUT THE PART OF MY BRAIN THAT CONTROLS MY PHYSICAL SELF WAS DAMAGED WHEN…