I am neither a scholar of the Hebrew Bible nor a theologian, yet very occasionally some unsuspecting soul asks me to preach or speak about the Bible. In 1994 I substituted one Sunday for […]
[…] are sent to all stake presidents and bishops. Brief reports are also published in the weekly Church News which is sent to thousands of subscribers worldwide. Finally, video tapes of conference are sent to […]
It’s not easy to motivate two thousand people, about evenly divided among high school students, young parents, and older citizens, to march a mile up a steep hill to listen to speakers on an […]
[…] in fact emerge out of the ashes of the old. I would like to think that I am a phoenix. But the operative word here is “new.” In some ways the past three years […]
[…] often bewildering events of my life, I have found both understanding and healing in the journey. I am deeply sorry I didn’t make the discovery until graduate school—a discovery that many students may not […]
[…] women who were part of that general LDS audience, I took the money and ran. But I am bothered now. Particularly in the light of subsequent experiences. She came to me during office hours […]
[…] to Mormon literature. In the meantime literary writing about Latter-day Saints has been burgeoning both in LDS and national markets—so much so that it is difficult for literary critics to keep up with this […]
[…] against Taylor and his first counselor, Cannon. Quinn, Extensions of Power, 42-47. See Leonard Arrington, Feramorz Y. Fox, and Dean L. May, Building the City of God: Community and Cooperation among the Mormons, 2nd […]
[…] year was 1983. Sister Mercedes Pico de Coello was dying of tuberculosis, coughing up blood. A frail and thin 43-year-old mother of twelve, her life could probably have been saved for $200. As a […]
[…] forty-three as a woman still driven by a gospel vision. In the early 1980s, then-priest Father Matthew Fox wrote a book called Wheel We, Wee All the Way Home: A Guide to a Sensual, Prophetic […]