[…] Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God is a collection of short missives —poems, essays, and autobiographical sketches— grouped loosely and thematically into thirteen sections and an epilogue. Ashley Mae […]
[…] 2016 The gaze of the girl on the cover of Eric Freeze’s short story collection arrested me —stopped me. Her eyes, full of hostility, told me that if I opened the book, I would […]
[…] different and more important role than these other closely related forms. It was in the four-paneled strip that I was rst introduced to philosophical thought, political commentary, satire, and the exploration of questions rather […]
[…] the Twenty-First Century (University of Utah Press, 2016), but the short version goes something like this: when we follow scholar Carolyn Walker Bynum’s advice and “look with” James and other non-white Latter-day Saints at […]
[…] and the Problem of Racial Innocence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020) 240pp. Mormonism and White Supremacy as an Explanation of Mormonism’s Relationship with White Supremacy Reviewed by James C. Jones Mormonism and White Supremacy […]
2019: Rebecca de Schweinitz, “There is no Equality”: William E Berrett, BYU, and healing the Wounds of Racism in the Latter- Day Saint Past and Present” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 52 No. 3 (2019):62–83.…
[…] diminutive narrator however, Irreversible Things demands to be read slowly. No, perhaps ‘demands’ is the wrong word —rather, this books sits down next to you, softly puts its hands on your knee and says, […]
[…] to be dogmatic. In other words, most of our theology consists of statements of doctrines (or assumed doctrines) —traditionally called dogmas—accompanied by rational justifications. Scripture has its place in dogmatic theologies as proof texts, or […]
The question I am considering here is at its heart relational. What kind of relationship with scripture exists within performative theology? When we understand scripture as wisdom rather than history, what does this understanding do […]
[…] the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, I spent most of my time plotting my escape —from childhood itself, but more specifically from a Mormon childhood in Utah. I wrote away for literature […]