Transition
December 22, 2023Soon the deer will leave the mountains.Search our garden for vegetation.Bite the tops off tea roses, their teeth leaving scars.In the yard the ash tree dropsleaves into the browning grass. My husband rakes around each…
Soon the deer will leave the mountains.Search our garden for vegetation.Bite the tops off tea roses, their teeth leaving scars.In the yard the ash tree dropsleaves into the browning grass. My husband rakes around each…
[…] the blood, all the better. Translated interview transcript. Camp Atoka, Utah. July 3, 2017. Within Jacoba’s Latter -day Saint kin–building model, it was important that her Utah–dwelling children and grandchildren marry not only Mormons […]
Dialogue 40.1 (Spring 2007): 83–136
Watson explains how the secret marriage of Louis J. Barlow to a 15 -year–old girl caused a major rift among fundamentalists. Today’s fundamentalist members are still experiencing the effects of […]
[…] my authentic self at church. Some of the Saints had also organized local events to have Latter -day Saint scholars, thinkers, influencers, and leaders share their expertise, experience, and testimonies. The first event I […]
[…] hard and uncomfortable conversation of racism. We need to keep having it to expel all the hot -air anger and have it until we’re able to reach effective dialogue during which we are truly […]
[…] the now uncommon LaNae, LaVelle variety. More contemporary observers note the abundance of female names ending in -lee such as Ashlee and Kaylee. The pseudo suffix -lyn, as seen in Kaylyn, is also common, […]
On May 16, 2005, Joseph Edward Duncan murdered Brenda Groene, her thirteen -year–old son, and her boyfriend. Police officers in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, found their bodies “face down in a welter of blood” (1). […]
[…] Christianity, the idea of grammatical exegesis has been around for a long time. In fact, the sixteenth -century theologian Philip Melanchthon said, “It is impossible to understand Scripture in its theology without having first […]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints isn’t the only major Christian denomination to have a history of racism. But it is the largest in the United States to have had a […]
[…] and now the mother of three daughters; second, my role as founder, in 2010, of a non -profit organization, the Mormon Women Project, which publishes stories of faithful Latter–day Saint women from around the […]