Lucky Wounds
December 10, 2021Old George sat on an upturned half -barrel cleaning his gun. It only ever shot blanks these days, but that didn’t matter much. A fellow outlaw’d once told him the state of your gun’s […]
Old George sat on an upturned half -barrel cleaning his gun. It only ever shot blanks these days, but that didn’t matter much. A fellow outlaw’d once told him the state of your gun’s […]
[…] asked someone else to play the organ. I’ve been playing the organ in this ward for forty -eight years. When I first learned to play, I had to pump the air through the pipes […]
[…] “Why not?” It’s a reasonable question—I’m here because I want to be. I’m neither mission- nor marriage -bound in the near future, and he knows that I’m approaching my endowment with a great deal […]
Though there is a well -established conversation on how reproductive technologies and policies influence cisgender, heterosexual women’s bodies within Mormonism, there is a less established conversation on how reproductive technologies and policies are affecting […]
[…] sense to me. So far, the results are not promising. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints is a messy religion. Because we do not have a systematic theology, and because many […]
When it comes to sacred places, I feel considerable holy envy toward the Latter -day Saints. Their sacred sites stretch across the continent, from Vermont to California. Mormons can visit their founding prophet’s birthplace, […]
[…] integrating them into a narrative that casts Smith as doing work incongruous to that demanded by a Protestant epistemic tradition bent on stripping the divine presence not only from the altars but also from […]
[…] with discrete gendered bodies and heteronormative relations, the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints will reinforce interlocking systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, culture, and sexuality. Taylor […]
[…] had read Eliza R. Snow’s “The Lamanite” (adapted from a poem she wrote before becoming a Latter -day Saint titled “The Red Man of the West”), so I suspected that there were probably a […]
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 […]