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[…] Mother is a shadowy fiction in our theology, a ghost in our mythology? What if the pau city of information we have about her has a darker implication than the arguments we tend to […]
[…] she received a calling to be the Lamanite Cultural Specialist for Historic Temple Square in Salt Lake City. While there she met her future husband, Richard Connell. Thirty-five years later, they are the parents […]
[…] the PDFs provided online and on JSTOR. Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young (Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1997), 16. Claudia Bushman, ed., Mormon Sisters (Cambridge, Mass.: […]
[…] of God,” Oct. 1991. Rachel Hunt Steenblik, Mother’s Milk: Poems in Search of Heavenly Mother (Salt Lake City: BCC Press, 2017). David L. Paulsen and Martin Pulido, “‘A Mother There’: A Survey of Historical […]
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[…] the foreword to Lavina Fielding Anderson’s memoir Mercy without End: Toward a More Inclusive Church (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2020). I’m grateful to Matt Bowman, Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, Benjamin Knoll, David Howlett, Melissa Inouye, […]
[…] of Mormon (UNC Press). Elizabeth Fenton reads the Book of Mormon as a performative critique of canoni city itself in which “history and . . . history-making” are shown to be fissured with “erasure, failure, and loss” […]
[…] “O Holy Night” concluded his own memorial service. From a small stereo in a nondescript Salt Lake City church building, Dale made his final performance. Another perfect five minutes passed. This time there was […]
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