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[…] strongly reinforced my impulse to write with a tough realism about Mormons in sin and turmoil. Furthermore, for the first time in many years, I had begun to feel like an insider among the […]
[…] the icing on the cake: the excommunication, he insisted, “has been done out of love and concern for you.” The good Lord must have a sense of humor, or perhaps there is a subtle […]
A man stands naked on the rubber of a checkout counter’s clnveyer belt, face smeared with something red. I’m checking the expiration date on the back of a suspicious-looking soup can; down the aisle, a…
A man stands naked on the rubber of a checkout counter’s clnveyer belt, face smeared with something red. I’m checking the expiration date on the back of a suspicious-looking soup can; down the aisle, a…
[…] much that, in the popular imagination, they were distinguishable not only by alien practices but physical appearance. For many Americans, Mormons were so wholly “other” that connecting deeply, or even casually, with them felt […]
[…] Mormon food historian Kate Holbrook gives us a peek at “My Emergency Shelf.” And right in time for Memorial Day comes David Howlett’s look at “A Mormon Massacre Site and Places within a Space.” […]
[…] the skin of his torso as it twists and tightens. “We lived there once,” he says. But for the dark hair on his chest, he resembles a Bernini. There is longing in his posture. […]
[…] to encompass the table and chairs. The cinder-block walls were painted an off-white. They were bare except for a few paintings of Jesus and photos of the then-prophet, his two counselors, and the twelve […]
[…] The more courageous, essential question was how did we let this happen? When did we start asking for so much permission? What is it we worship when we perform timidity as piety? And how […]