Diné Doctor: A Latter-day Saint Story of Healing
August 13, 2021[…] I’m a hero. I do it because I care.” He works with some Diné elders who are over ninety years old, and some of his patients only speak Navajo—his first language that now only […]
[…] I’m a hero. I do it because I care.” He works with some Diné elders who are over ninety years old, and some of his patients only speak Navajo—his first language that now only […]
[…] being a Lamanite. I internalized this, and along with it, I absorbed another lesson that holds sway over me to this day: to declare my Lamanite heritage to anyone else is an act of […]
[…] missions in geographic areas where the Church had not formally proselyted. There has been burgeoning academic literature over the past few decades in relation to Mormonism’s racialised theology and the effects it has had […]
[…] Finalists Association for Mormon Letters 2019 Poetry Award Finalists Irreantum (Mormon literary journal) A Desolating Sickness: Stories of Pandemic. An exhibit at the BYU library. 2021 Association for Mormon Letters Online Conference, June 1-5
[…] driven out of their homes back east at gunpoint too many times, and after months of trudging over the plains and struggling through the Rocky Mountains, they were resigned to settling in a place […]
[…] politics. The result is a tightly focused, well-argued volume that explores the tensions within the Mormon hierarchy over Benson’s political prominence and the conservative views he espoused. Brian Cannon’s essay leads the collection with […]
[…] of Mormon Nauvoo is strictly necessary. The city, after all, has received its fair share of analysis over the years. Scholars examining religious persecution, Jacksonian economic policy, antebellum sexual practices, historical archeology, and even […]
[…] web format of this article as a courtesy. There may be unintentional differences from the printed version. For citational and bibliographical purposes, please use the printed version or the PDFs provided online and on JSTOR.
[…] white congregations and white politics is a result of a habit of choosing white comfort and power over Black humanity and solidarity, analyzing some key moments in Mormon history to demonstrate this. Brooks also […]
[…] into moments of historical contingency wherein Latter-day Saint leaders had choices and consistently chose their own whiteness over equality and social justice. Her focus is not only on Latter-day Saint leaders who dug in […]