Jana Riess is a senior columnist at Religion News Service and the author of many books, including “The Prayer Wheel” (Random House/Convergent, 2018) and “The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church” […]
Charles Beacham has always been a storyteller. As a boy, he’d write and tell stories, draw his own comic books, and force his younger brothers to act in his extremely low-budget films. As a teenager…
[…] Tom Hiddleston’s voice. Her hobbies include avoiding vacuuming, fixing her sewing machine, and figuring out how to get resin and gold leafing off of her countertops. Heather knows a little bit about almost everything […]
[…] (BYU) in Provo, Utah, where he teaches courses on race/ethnicity, immigration, and Latinas/os in US History. His writing has been published in scholarly journals, anthologies, and newspapers including: The Journal of American Ethnic History, […]
December 13: Joseph Spencer Joseph M. Spencer is a philosopher and assistant professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. He’s the author or editor of eight books, most recently of 1st Nephi: A Brief…
November 8: Kylie Nielson Turley on Mormon 7-9 Kylie Nielson Turley (MA in American Studies) has taught writing and literature courses at UVU and BYU-Provo since 1995. She emphasizes a literary approach to the Book […]
[…] an assistant clinical professor and assistant director of diversity and inclusion at the BYU Counseling and Psychological Services. Louise was born and raised in France where she also completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology. […]
Alma 39-42 — August 2: Maxine Hanks Maxine Hanks lectures and writes on history, women’s studies and theology in Mormon studies and Christian liturgy. She did her bachelor’s in Gender Studies at the University of Utah,…
[…] with Greg Kofford Books, Exponent II, LDS Living, Journal of Mormon History, Dialogue and other venues. In addition to co- writing The God Who Weeps (Ensign Peak, 2012), she is the joint author of The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections on the […]
For our Dialogue Gospel Study (14 March 2021) on Doctrine and Covenants 25, Melody Newey Johnson asked participants to write down a word, words, or phrases that came to mind when they thought of Emma…