When a five-year-old boy tragically disappears from a quiet LDS neighborhood, grief-stricken family members, detectives, ward members, and suspects all struggle to find their footing in the agonizing aftermath. In The Contortionists, the new novel…
Like a mother opening her arms to embrace her children, the span of mountains and trees that look over my childhood home in Salt Lake City extend to the south and cradle also the homes…
[…] in priesthood might. We were children when we heard decapitation was the only course to save the world. Just kids when Haun’s Mill came out on VHS. I stayed up every night after my […]
[…] Sunday, doubts doubting doubt. Everything in a simmer until I find my niche at church. Someplace to read history and hide. Healing happens in the dark for those of us who burrow. Note: The […]
The Indigenous peoples of the Americas have held their own sets of values and beliefs since time immemorial. Indigenous peoples have rejected the Doctrine of Discovery because it suggests that the United States government is…
When Brigham Young University (BYU) hosted Clark B. Hinckley’s presentation about his book Christopher Columbus: “A Man Among the Gentiles” for Education Week 2019, many community members responded with concern. In his presentation, Hinckley claimed…
[…] yours, Strunk & White!” he seems to say. His own style, even in playful departures from al ready playful variations on standard prose, is the perfect union of Victorian lugubriousness and modernist minimalism, which […]
VII. Sometimes I kneel down to play a gamefrom my childhood. Only then can I feelgrains of gravel, each pebble digs in so real.Sometimes I act as though I am the same,a young girl, rope…
Givens and Hauglid are direct: their goal is to provide a sustained, academic, and nuanced treatment of the Pearl of Great Price [PGP]. Their motive lies in the fact that this volume has received relatively…
[…] the hallowed ground of another’s suffering with that thick steel cross leaned against the bed. The mistakes breaking us toward these three libraries we’ve never been and the books on the shelves of all […]