[…] I tore the guide to pieces and spent the remainder of the service mourning the state of America’s evangelical community. There was no dialogue. There was no room for prayerful consideration of the issues. […]
[…] to me with any more force than that of any other announcement from the pulpit after sacr ament meeting or any other stray comment that gets mentioned in Gospel Doctrine class. I’ve no doubt […]
[…] disfellow- shipped from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The events were widely covered in news media. Lynne Kanavel Whitesides, Avraham Gileadi, Paul Toscano, Maxine Hanks, D. Michael Quinn, and Lavina Fielding […]
[…] The Paradise. He is a retired civil servant who continues, with civility, to write poetry and short stories. Lee’s writing has appeared in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Plains Poetry Journal, 2 River […]
[…] hands to grab her. The photo freezes the look of disgust and determination on his face. People today look at that photo and immediately see the absurdity of banning women from participating in a […]
[…] or disfellowshipped from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The events were widely covered in news media. Lynne Kanavel Whitesides, Avraham Gileadi, Paul Toscano, Maxine Hanks, D. Michael Quinn, and Lavina Fielding […]
[…] ten months, and they inserted a tube down your throat to help you breathe. Today, a te am of six of us crowded into your room, where you were lying face down on the […]
[…] by DeVoto and countless Latter-day Saints negotiating their relationship to the inherited past of their own faith today. The grounds of the early Saints and polygamy are well-trod within Mormon literature. Where Grant—Washington Post […]
Listen to this piece here. I come from a f amily of Mormons, although perhaps somewhat unorthodox ones. Somewhere in England and what is today Romania, my father’s ancestors heard of a man named […]
[…] called the gold plates story “the single most trouble some item in Joseph Smith’s history.” Smith f amously claimed to have discovered, with the help of an angel, anciently engraved gold plates buried in […]