[…] fast action of the rodeo circuit which is the milieu of his protagonist Jesse Gifford. A down -and–outer since a trouncing under the hooves of the bronc that had thrown him, Jesse, his back […]
[…] Certainly Latin America deserves our attention. There are now 600 thousand members in eighteen of the twenty -three independent Latin Ameri can republics and Puerto Rico. Currently the region is experiencing the highest rate […]
[…] child, highly valued as an extension of the parent, may be used to bolster the parents’ self -esteem but is not valued for himself. This results in a person who has both low self–esteem […]
[…] read her Daily Light devotional every morning, listened all day to Christian radio, and kept a pocket -size New Testament in her glove compartment, had now, deliberately and with great care, spoken a word […]
[…] MHA and AML 2019 awards. Books discussed: Greg Prince. Gay Rights and the Mormon Church Brenda R. Weber Latter -day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism Lisa Van Orman Hadley. Irreversible Things D.J. Butler. Witchy Eye […]
[…] the collection Essays on American Indian and Mormon History. I approached the book as an Indigenous, Latter -day Saint woman, steeped in both my Yurok culture and my Mormon faith—one by birth and one […]
[…] House Press); Gilda Trillim (Round Fire Press at John Hunt Publishing), and for short story once (Two -Dog Dose). His novel King Leere: Goatherd of the La Sals (BCC Press) was a semi–finalist in […]
[…] a queer son. I am also an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints as well as a professor at Brigham Young University, where I teach courses in literacy […]
[…] creation of the world and humankind, Heavenly Mother was nowhere to be found. Creation was an all -male endeavor. I sobbed in the celestial room as I realized that this was a Motherless house. […]
[…] that I did not recognize in the slightest. When my downfall reached the rock bottom of on -the–streets homelessness, it finally occurred to me that what I had been experiencing might meet criteria for […]