[…] of white ignorance and cruelty. “Untitled” symbolizes the exhaustion of emotion work performed by Black people who live, work, or worship in segregated white spaces. Within these lethal places, Blacks painstakingly work to project […]
[…] anti-intellectualism is), was what I consider a false association of nineteenth century Mormonism with the Enlightenment. I am surprised that Professor Allen did not catch this, and since the idea of rationalistic Enlightenment-Mormonism-intellectualism in […]
[…] a few minor Mormon-produced exceptions) including Sister Wives (reality TV), Big Love, The Book of Mormon (musical), interviews with the Osmonds, various news and other media featuring and about Elizabeth Smart, MLMs, various podcast episodes hosted by John Dehlin, […]
[…] its passage, as members of this group with Bibles opened thundered denunciation of the abominations of Sodom and Gomorrah. Proponents of the defeated bill remained confident, however, of its eventual passage in future sessions, […]
[…] was given a copy of an es say by a student explaining why when he heard the news of the Kent State killings he had returned to his room to fast and pray for […]
[…] my own case three novels, each one of them the product of the most intense work I am capable of (two of them, incidentally, about Utah—a fact which you seem unaware of) fell into […]
[…] had spent many hours as a child taking in games on a small black-and-white television or via AM radio in the car or, sometimes, watching in person at Candle stick, all bundled up with […]
[…] ladder, a glimmer in the darkening day. Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst. In the silence, the glow from the window, he felt that the […]
[…] the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1902), 4:607 “Minutes of the Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Society,” Nauvoo Relief Society […]
[…] suffered such missiles for more than a hundred years, Utah Mormons have developed a thick hide. I am afraid that too many readers will simply pull out the barb and with it dismiss the […]