Eldridge Cleaver, one-time Black Panther, author of the critically acclaimed best-selling memoir Soul on Ice, and notorious fugitive from justice, was the most famous African American to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…
Dear Sirs: I have just finished reading the First Presidency’s statement in the April Era against pornography and obscenity. As a widow with three young boys to raise I am concerned about the possible dangers…
Come join Lori on an exploration of Mosiah for our only May Gospel Study! Lori Thompson Forsyth has had a long and somewhat random history with the publishing industry. She was a typesetter at the Harvard Crimson…
Listen to the Dialogue Podcast #2 featuring John G. Turner discussing his new book Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet? Then check out this roundtable conclusion at Juvenile Instructor (with all the contributions listed at the end) wherein Turner responds.
Introduction I and many Mormons ache to apologize for our 130-year practice of excluding people of Black African ancestry from temple and priesthood participation. We long to apologize for our community’s attempts during and afterwards…
When I received a review copy of Terryl and Nathaniel Givens’ new book Into the Headwinds: Why Belief Has Always Been Hard—and Still Is, I was warned by the author that as a book about…
F. LaMond Tullis’s Grass Roots in Mexico: Stories of Pioneering Latter-day Saints explores the lives of nineteen people who influenced the founding and growth of Mormonism in Mexico. Tullis is a retired professor of political…
For my younger children So you will know, here is a recounting of the quantuminfluences, the little arcs of familiar experience thataccelerate within your own beings, tickling the protonsof personality, exciting your identities into existence,top…
On April 4, 2020, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) formally adopted an institutional symbol that is now prominently displayed on the Church logo and is imprinted on Church publications, websites, videos,…
Listen to an interview about this piece here. The new young Bishop Fredning had not asked Vernie to prepare and narrate the Christmas program. For the first time in twenty-seven years, the bishop of the…