A House of Order
April 16, 2018[…] shoulders, flat across her chest—she looked like a little girl. She bent over the skin, pulling her black hair sideways out of her eyes. “A snake,” she said. She knelt on the floor with […]
[…] shoulders, flat across her chest—she looked like a little girl. She bent over the skin, pulling her black hair sideways out of her eyes. “A snake,” she said. She knelt on the floor with […]
[…] cleavage. Her navy blue skirt is as skimpy as a cheerleader’s, but her bare legs, peppered with black nubs, are molded more for rugby than for pom-and-cheer. She withdraws a chair from our cozy […]
[…] wheeling gulls. Whereupon the scene shifted and Sister Dal lon was sitting in front of a large black desk on a hard, straightbacked— she twisted around to check, yep, Chippendale—chair. The female form was […]
[…] steps out, wiping her hands on a white and green checkered apron. She catches one of her black pumps on the top porch step and nearly falls face first into the concrete path leading […]
Tregan Weaver was driving home from Madison High in his little black CRX on the first warm day of spring in Rexburg, Idaho. The trees along Main Street were in blossom, the lawns were […]
[…] are explicitly excluded from the church’s leadership hierarchy, so they generally derive their status in the Mormon community through their husbands and children” (200). I would have liked this collection to have included at […]
[…] widespread “disobedience” among the faithful, vocal internal opposition, and severe controversies over the Catholic “responsibility” in spreading HIV by not permitting the use of condoms, even in the case of married HIV-discordant couples. Some […]
In “LDS blacks, scholars cheer church’s essay on priesthood” at the Deseret News, Lester Bush’s famous Dialogue piece is referenced. “Rees was […]
[…] man at the time. These beliefs reach the utmost absurdity to me when they designate the current black population as the descendents of Cain and of Ham and when they use the Bible accounts […]
[…] its present form. Mormon historians have pursued some of these questions, but only in the case of black Americans have they approached the level of investigation required to bring significant illumination. Most of the […]