[…] his eyes, which are often described as the window to the soul. “Untitled” grapples with the centuries -old white racist framing of Black men as rapists, criminals, and violent thugs. The irony being that […]
[…] almost exactly what you would expect from a book with such a title. A brilliant and well -researched thesis analyzing the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter–day Saints to its present […]
In Mormonism and White Supremacy Joanna Brooks sets out to tell the Latter -day Saint racial story refracted through the lenses of white supremacy and racial innocence. As she describes it, her book “seeks […]
[…] who have opinions about (white) Mormon theology, (white) Mormon culture, (white) Mormon people or white American, anti -black supremacy as a concept and sociohistorical practice. This is because of the unconscious ways that her […]
In the mid -twentieth century, Ezra Taft Benson was an important political figure who despised communism and feared that the United States was on the road to moral decay. He decried the rise of […]
In an era awash in a sea of reboots and re -examinations, one may be forgiven for initially wondering why yet another treatment of Mormon Nauvoo is strictly necessary. The city, after all, has […]
[…] Smith’s concept of translation as a prophetic project began to extend, leaving behind concepts of strict word -to–word correspondence and instead expanding into oracular experience precipitated in some way through sustained, prophetic attention upon […]
[…] Each sudden tree lining the road, long leaves and aspens, fir and blue spruce and the on -edge bushes. The purling road itself where wheel lift tow trucks pull onto the hallowed ground of […]
[…] the sea when the spirit of God moved on the face of the waters —ποίηση— like Red -shouldered Hawks spiraling above the pine–laced crags of Timpanogos’ Prominent and the snake’s ribbons in the dirt […]
The jar is silent because it is full of praise.The grasshoppers are loud because they, too,are full of praise, clicking as they fly. The grasshoppers jump, but the jar is too high.They try to climb,…