[…] less well-written contributions are so dramatic and on-the-nose that they read almost like articles from the satiric news site The Onion (which, I suppose, could still be argued as relevant alternate history). Perhaps this was […]
[…] a pestering playfulness: “First, why the three names? Must everyone in the club be immortalized as a black-hearted triptych? . . . James Earl Ray. John Wilkes Booth. Lee Harvey Oswald. Mary Kay Letourneau” […]
[…] Alternate Realities (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995), 21. Charles D. Broad, foreword to Swan on a Black Sea: A Study in Automatic Writ ing: The Cummins-Willett Scripts, by Geraldine Cummins (London: Routledge and […]
[…] or trajectory. This idea is not exclusively limited to Widtsoe. In my work in the Mormon feminist community, it has been condescendingly explained to me by critics that women who desire ordination risk shirking […]
[…] followed Church leaders who vacated Ohio for Far West, Missouri. Barnes didn’t spend much time in the community-building efforts before he was again sent east to preach. He remained in missionary service until 1841, […]
[…] the Goddess, Anne Baring and Jules Cashford emphasize the important correspondence between the goddess Sophia and the Black Madonna in late medieval tradition: “Black is the colour that is associated with Wisdom, as the […]
[…] podcast Quincy Newell discusses “Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon.” From the Miller Eccles website: “Dear Brother,” Jane Manning James wrote to Joseph F. Smith in […]
[…] with the pounding of my own heart. I married my BYU alum husband, who is from the Blackfoot tribe in Canada. We have four children. I wanted to believe that Happy Valley could be […]
[…] Mel was a University of Wyoming football player–one of fourteen removed from the team after wearing black arm bands to protest BYU and the LDS Church’s priesthood/temple restrictions. In this conversation, they discuss […]
[…] Latter-day Saints to reconsider its historical stance on race, particularly its practice of denying full fellowship to Black individuals. Udall argues that this practice, rooted in the belief in a divine curse on Black […]