[…] about her neighbor, I wanted to make sure the kids were safe, I wanted, in short, a news article. This was the first moment when Van Orman Hadley asked me, gently, to read it […]
[…] refuge prior to the imminent return of Jesus Christ. It’s not exactly a symbol of Christian unity today. Three groups own parts of land purchased in the early 1830s in response to those revelations. […]
[…] the past to find solace. My bishop was kind but honestly shocked and clearly uncomfortable with my news. I poured out my fears and pain and I got nothing in return. He actually said […]
[…] as well as chapels in Utah. The style became so popular in the Church that one Deseret News writer, evidently unfamiliar with Frank Lloyd Wright, wrote that the work of Pope and Burton “has […]
[…] year later, in my first semester of the English master’s program at Brigham Young University, that I read my first Mormon feminist book—Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams. […]
[…] Saints, 2020). Jana Riess, “New LDS Handbook Softens Stance on Sexuality, Doubles Down on Transgender Rules,” Religion News Service, Feb. 19, 2020. “Transgender Individuals,” General Handbook of Instructions, 2020. J. Sumerau and Ryan Cragun, […]
[…] didn’t exist during much of the nineteenth century, one wonders at the cost of insisting on it today. What is admirable about Gene England’s discipleship is that it was consistent throughout his life. Not […]
Today, June 20, 2021, is the first day since March 15, 2020 that we in the Stanford First Ward have been allowed to attend service in our own building without masks and social […]
[…] correcting “the morals of the community.” The secret oaths and penalties were not entirely effective, however, and news soon leaked out among the church that there was “a secret group of Saints, including women, […]
[…] to listen to it, to listen for the “muse’s” whispers, has been a decades-long effort. When I read Dayna Patterson’s poems, I again appreciate the dedication of the craft. Her second collection, O Lady, […]