A Superior Alternative
June 21, 2023[…] print or neon lights!” as my fifth-grade teacher once wrote), I barreled off to BYU, declared an English major, and sailed on through to grad school in the same department. When Professor Don Norton […]
[…] print or neon lights!” as my fifth-grade teacher once wrote), I barreled off to BYU, declared an English major, and sailed on through to grad school in the same department. When Professor Don Norton […]
[…] pain. I considered it one of my hard-earned strengths to provide a safe space for others to share their deep personal pain without my own “stuff” getting in the way. But that day, I […]
[…] pre-twentieth-century ballet performers. Notwithstanding these facts, what I do know is that I very much needed to read Professor Wickman’s book, subtitled The Spiritual Memoir of a Literature Professor. And it was not simply […]
[…] this heavenly pair acting as a narratively disruptive and unnecessary chorus. This novel is the second I’ve read from BCC Press where Book of Mormon Nephi is cut down to size, a character who […]
[…] my son experiencing even minor pain was gutting. I knew the Savior felt the pains of the world in Gethsemane, but I wondered if there was a difference between the things he experienced on […]
[…] through the Atonement by experiencing multiple embodied experiences (from childbirth to male-pattern baldness). While Ostler’s arguments succinctly read queerness into the Atonement, she doesn’t establish the various atonement theologies that have proliferated and still […]
Rosalyn Eves teaches English at Southern Utah University and writes young adult novels in her spare time. She earned a PhD in English from Penn State in 2008, where she wrote about Women’s spatial rhetorics in the nineteenth-century American […]
[…] yet another treatment of Mormon Nauvoo is strictly necessary. The city, after all, has received its fair share of analysis over the years. Scholars examining religious persecution, Jacksonian economic policy, antebellum sexual practices, historical […]
[…] space given to the historical and academic aspects of Mormonism and more on the Church in today’s world. It would be very interesting, and I believe very healthy, if there could be some scientific […]
[…] a coming-of-age memoir that is not so much about Mormonism—or growing up in Utah—as haunted by it. As I read, I settled almost too easily into the places and people of someone I’ve never known, completely […]