[…] in order to redeem herself, while the hero who has succumbed to her temptation is allowed to live on, a penitent man). The larger narrative is one of a church and an artistic medium […]
[…] and directionless adult I’d become, asked me, ‘What is it you want, exactly?’ ‘I just want to live my own life,’ I said. She rolled her eyes. ‘What else?’” (21) Which is, of course, exactly […]
[…] even more undiscriminating hearts.” In the hard Icelandic life a man like Steinar is “overwhelmed with the news that Zion was to be found on earth, with vacancies available.” After a while, Steinar revealed […]
[…] the church. 2017: Julie Bowman, “Review: Problem Plays that Cultivate Compassion Melissa Leilani Larson. Third Wheel: Peculiar Stories of Mormon Women in Love” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 50 No. 3 (2017): 183–185. […]
[…] Hicks’ autobiography leads to an unnuanced assessment. Brooks similarly relies on two twenty-first century newspaper accounts (Deseret News and New York Times) for the lynching of miner Robert Marshall in Price, Utah, in 1925. […]
[…] language is symbolic. But even in the context of symbolism, language that is so preferential toward men and dismissive of women—especially when such language more aptly demonstrates the bias of the writers than the […]
[…] genealogy that linked them, though Helen could never quite remember. “This tabernacle is almost younger than I am! I saw it dedicated. It’s not ready to die yet. Not to mention that’s where I’ve […]
<i>Dialogue 50.2 (Summer 2017): 209–213</i><br> “I was excommunicated from the Church in 1986. I am a gay man in a twenty-five-year-long relationship with my husband Göran Gustav-Wrathall. We were legally married in July 2008. […]
Mormons have long remained isolated from their neighbors by choice and by necessity. Today is not the past, however, and most Mormons live outside of Utah. Los Angeles and New York are as important […]
[…] for the tortured British postures during the Mandate period as well as illuminating problems still plaguing Israel today. Michener merits the commendations he has received from Jewish reviewers who feel that he has done […]