[…] readers to “follow her child protagonists as they non-judgmentally bring everything they encounter into their newly forming world view, . . . soaking” it all in (111). Carter shows how Sorensen’s works are not only timelessly beautiful […]
[…] the past were our fathers and mothers, and all the people who will be living throughout the world at no immense distance in the future will be our sons and daughters, so the entire […]
[…] great move and the colonization of Utah Territory and adjacent regions. However, the missionary outreach to the world has shouldered its way into the literature of culture, history, and politics of members far and […]
[…] the terrestrial kingdom as he had ever been. The boy recited the poem, his preadolescent voice sometimes breaking almost bass, then cracking into boyish alto. Even in his nadir, Vernie thought that, despite the […]
[…] we drove to Panajachel on Lake Atitlan, which some have called the most beautiful lake in the world, ringed by volcanos and Mayan villages. We thought of taking a boat tour the next day […]
[…] 1990s were halcyon years for Mormons and Mormonism. The Church was the “fastest growing religion in the world”—at least, that’s what we told ourselves, aided by sociologist Rodney Stark’s grandiose projections. Anything that happened […]
[…] a really generative way of thinking about Christ—just as language aids me in mediating between myself the world, Christ is a point of mediation, a fulcrum for a relationship between my local, sinful experience […]
[…] first day I made the starling and then let its feathers become the centerpiece of the highest world glittering with iridescent speckles letting the undertones of violet and turquoise shine through. This (I thought) […]
[…] When I was about seven years old, we moved to Roosevelt, only eight miles but a whole world away. I enjoyed being in the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, but I don’t recall any […]
[…] the resurrected God she had grown up worshipping. Previously seeing no place for herself in the modern world, she had planned on finding refuge as a nun, but the promises given to the Lamanites […]