Paul Guajardo
Paul Guajardo, Assistant Professor of English, University of Houston.
Building Cultural Bridges | Jessie L. Embry, Asian American Mormons: Bridging Cultures, and Jessie L. Embry, “In His Own Language”: Mormon Spanish Speaking Congregations in the United States
Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 1
As a missionary in Denver, I served in a Spanish-speaking branch—a re warding and sometimes frustrating experience. Because of the limited size of the congregation, I wondered about the segregation and whether the Spanish speaking…
Read moreReaching toward Heaven, Rooted on Earth | John Bennion, Falling toward Heaven
Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 2
One afternoon while eating my sandwich in the faculty lounge of the English Department at the University of Houston, I couldn’t help but notice a 1989 dissertation that was nearly a foot thick: Court of…
Read moreCharismatic Leader and Organizing Genius | Robert V. Reminin, Joseph Smith
Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 4
In this biography of Joseph Smith by a non-Mormon historian, we have a short, readable, mostly chronological narrative that presents Joseph Smith and Mormonism as the products of a particular historical period. A professor emeritus…
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