[…] her the chance to examine what marriage-including her own-meant to her. The authors discuss their stories, Mormon marriage expectations and realities, and the craft of writing memoirs. The episode also features special co-host Jenifer Larson-Hall.
[…] doing dot-to-dot pictures. Do you know the ones I’m talking about? You began with a sheet of paper scattered with dots and tiny numbers, like a starry but constellation-less sky; any star could have […]
[…] of its contributors, though, Hoyt and Petrey’s collection does the study of gender in Mormonism a great service by bringing its frameworks, paradigms, and methodologies further into the twenty-first century. Amy Hoyt and Taylor […]
[…] Zion Earth Zen Sky. Provo: Brigham Young University Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2021. 271pp. Paper: $19.95. ISBN: 9781950304110. Note: The Dialogue Foundation provides the web format of this article as a […]
[…] the way conservative Mormon teachings coincide with traditional religious models of gender. Similarly, during this time when writing about the changes in how Church leaders instructed members regarding sexual relations and birth control, Petrey […]
[…] (Lamentations 5:21). James Goldberg. A Book of Lamentations. American Fork, Utah: Beant Kaur Books, 2020. 161 pp. Paper: $15.99. ISBN: 979-8667443285. Note: The Dialogue Foundation provides the web format of this article as a […]
[…] it as well. Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner. The Contortionists. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2020. 358 pp. Paper: $16.95. ISBN: 978-1560852896. Note: The Dialogue Foundation provides the web format of this article as a […]
[…] Or a desire to have everyone recognize how well my talents happen to line up with the service that is (or used to be) needed at church? Is it because I love the people? […]
[…] comfort those in need of comfort. They grieve with those who grieve. They lose themselves in the service of their fellow beings. They love one another. My Indigenous husband graduated from the University of […]
[…] the Black voice. Indeed, the silencing of Black people who dare to use their talents in the service of social justice is commonplace. White Americans live and operate in a social milieu that buffers […]