Book Review: Holly Welker, ed. Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage
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Baring Imperfect Human Truths
Holly Welker, ed. Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage. […]
Remembering Armand Lind Mauss: 1928-2020
August 1, 2020[…] decisions. As he later said, While still a young adult, I learned to recognize and appreciate the human fallibility in all our leaders, and thus to keep my expectations for their performance quite modest. […]
Pray Without Ceasing
November 4, 2020[…] pray in their hearts” (3 Ne. 20:1). To pray without ceasing is asking a great deal from human brains. We live in an age where we are constantly multitasking—talking on the phone while driving, […]
The Dark Side of Devotion Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner, The Contortionists
November 2, 2021[…] author has created characters who toggle between sympathetic and loathsome in a way that renders them entirely human, and few are spared his critical eye. The climax of this taut mystery is shocking in […]
Dialogue Doctrine & Covenants Gospel Study with George Handley on D&C 85–88
August 9, 2021George Handley is a professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at BYU where he has taught since 1998. His research interests in the area of environmental humanities have resulted in various publications on literature and the environment; an environmental…
Excommunication and Finding Wholeness
April 24, 2021[…] God and the severing of covenants that bind us to our individual families and to the larger human family. Regardless of one’s feelings about it, excommunication is rarely seen as a positive thing. One […]
Eve’s Choice
September 19, 2023[…] growth that only mortality—including the bearing of children—could provide. Ironically, we believe that Satan’s attempt to corrupt humanity actually put us on a path toward salvation. We fell forward. Latter-day Saints give Eve full […]
“Fast from that Which is Not Perfect”: Food Abstinence and Fasting Cures in the Kingdom of God
May 30, 2023[…] are definitely faith promoting. I remember sitting in public school biology classes and being told that a human couldn’t survive more than 3 days without water. Imagine hearing that as a ‘true saint.’” By […]
The September Six and the Lost Generation of Mormon Studies
August 29, 2023[…] understanding I experienced. There are no guarantees. *** Some of Joseph Smith’s most poignant insights into the human condition came when he languished in Liberty Jail during the winter of 1838–39. In his masterful […]
Joseph Smith and the Long Eighteenth Century | Colby Townsend, ed., Envisioning Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Revelations in Their EarlyAmerican Contexts
June 21, 2023[…] undermining of literalist biblical hermeneutics in antebellum America via the apocalyptic unveiling of the text’s own “ human conditions of scripture writing and scripture reading” (288), a “metatextual navel-gazing profoundly destabilizes its self-canonizing narrative, […]