[…] for Hughes’s lament that cronyism spawns “dishonest” enthusiasm for contemporaries’ work: Any human pursuit—from figure skating to stock brokerage—is subject to politics. Unfortunately, poetry is no exception. Nevertheless, it would seem that the greater […]
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[…] Dialogue Out Loud podcast, host Taylor Petrey interviews Nicholas Shrum about his thought-provoking essay, “Materializing Faith and Politics: The Unseen Power of the NCCS Pocket Constitution in American Religion,” featured in the Summer 2024 […]
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[…] come from a family of Mormons, although perhaps somewhat unorthodox ones. Somewhere in England and what is today Romania, my father’s ancestors heard of a man named Joseph Smith and his vision of God […]
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[…] and feminine characters in theology—runs the risk of re-inscribing dualistic, structuralist hierarchies rather than challenging the gender politics of culture. Mormon feminists’ idealization of women and absolutization of sexual difference have yet to confront […]
[…] when it made its way into the world, but it ended up being a widely discussed piece and has been accessed tens of thousands of times. The public discussion about my ideas was both […]
[…] my work. We have been told that a sense of humor is fatal to a career in politics. It is a handicap to any career in literature and an extremely serious handicap to a […]
[…] 2018): 167–180</i><br>In the prequel to this article, I discussed in general contours the dual nature of authority—individual and institutional—and how the modern LDS concept of priesthood differs significantly from the ancient version in that […]