[…] Book of Mormon (2020) and Why I Stay2: The Challenge of Discipleship for Contemporary Latter-day Saints ( 2021). He just finished co- editing (with Thomas Griffith and Brent Rushforth) a collection of essays in […]
[…] these histories of displacement and dispossession. Todd Robert Petersen. Picnic in the Ruins. Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint Press, 2021. 336 pp. Paperback: $16.95. ISBN: 9781640093225. Note: The Dialogue Foundation provides the web format of this […]
[…] to feel peace of mind? Of heart? Of both? Other scriptures speak of hearing an internal voice —sometimes a loud one, more often still or small—or of finding insight through the written word of […]
A few years ago, William Logan wrote, “Poetry has long been a major art with a minor audience.” We could more accurately call it a major art with many minor audiences grouped, like the poets, […]
[…] “queer” and “Mormon” or “gay” and “Latter-day Saint” will open doors to new insight and engagement. Blaire Ostler. Queer Mormon Theology: An Introduction. BCC Press, 2021. 136pp. Paper: $10.95. Kindle: $7.49. Audiobook: $17.99. ISBN: 9781948218412.
Listen to the Out Loud Interview about this article here. They came to us just before spring arrived, at the same time I began putting seeds into the ground in my garden. Lettuce, spinach, arugula. […]
[…] Joseph Smith Encountered Printing Plates,” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 31, no. 2 ( 2021): 150–178. Hazard, “How Joseph Smith Encountered,” 140, 146. Hazard, “How Joseph Smith Encountered,” 148. Hazard, “How […]
Listen to this piece here. I come from a family of Mormons, although perhaps somewhat unorthodox ones. Somewhere in England and what is today Romania, my father’s ancestors heard of a man named Joseph Smith […]
[…] third with Pumza Sixiche entitled Gobo Fango: Lost Son of Xhosa Warriors, which was presented at the 2021 Mormon History Association. She is currently a part-time professor for Capella University and lives in Moreno […]
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