[…] facts. Here is encouraging commentary offered by Petersen in Chapter 5: Souls in Transition provides abundant good news about LDS youth. Mormons had a higher retention rate than any other denomination as young people […]
[…] Olsen Tait discusses the accomplishments and impact of Susa Young Gates, both in the Church and in Utah society. usa Young Gates was a remarkable woman; preeminent in a generation of eminent Mormon women—a writer, editor, Church […]
[…] Joseph W. Sitati, member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, who will speak on “Race and the International Church” at noon in the Tanner Dining Room at the University of Utah Alumni House. Register today!
[…] wrestle of every Sunday. — Photo credits: Marcus Bowers Sharon Harris is an instructor of writing and English literature at Fordham University where she is also pursuing a PhD in early modern British literature. […]
[…] named, these are things that there are fine lines here and there.” *** An interview with KUTV news of Utah published March 14, 2015 by Daniel Woodruff with Elder D. Todd Christofferson. Relevant part […]
[…] succeed Kristine Haglund when her term as editor ends December 31, 2015. Petersen has taught courses in English and religious and Mormon studies at Utah Valley University since 1995, receiving a Faculty Excellence Award […]
[…] that texts are just so many inkblots in which to discover our own neuroses. I’m not THAT English professor. I am making a much more modest set of claims: 1) that all texts can […]
[…] American-ness so cheerfully that it can appear paradoxically creepy, Mormons are still perceived as strange and secretive. News outlets seemed downright eager to put “Mormon” and “polygamy” together in headlines, and many publications repeated […]
There was no way I could fit all the amazing blogs from the past 10+ years into the print feature in the Summer 2014 Issue so for a special treat for all online Dialogue readers, a supplemental featuring of more wonderful posts from the LDS blog world and beyond. Enjoy! – EmJen
[…] could rival other world faiths such as Islam, Buddhism, historic Christianity, and Hinduism. In 2001 the U.S. News and World Report ran a cover story about “The Mormon Moment” in which it stated, “By […]