Ben is an ecosystem ecologist at Brigham Young University who studies how natural and human disturbances affect carbon, nutrient, and water cycles. Specifically, he works on the permafrost climate feedback, eutrophication, wildfire, river biogeochemistry, […]
[…] Professor of Violin and Music Education at Brigham Young University–Idaho. She received a Ph.D. in Music and Human Learning from the University of Texas at Austin, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from Brigham Young […]
[…] Boswell freely used the term “gay” for medieval and ancient subjects who expressed a preference for same -sex romantic and sexual relationships, while recognizing it was a label impossible for them to apply to […]
Dialogue 38.3 (Fall 2005): 133–145 In Fall 2005, there is a roundtable on mix–orientation marriages from some who were in them and from therapist Marybeth Raynes and long–time activist Ron Schow.
[…] amongst ourselves –with the quiescent LDS womanhood idolized in late 1970s Church public relations campaigns and long -skirted statues on temple lawns? We could just blame “the patriarchy.” But that would have perpetuated further […]
[…] with Christopher Rich and LaJean Purcell Carruth titled This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah. He is Project Manager and General Editor of an award–winning digital database, […]
Dialogue 55.3 (Fall 2022): 75 -106
As a contribution to the larger project of examining the King James Bible’s influence on The Book of Mormon, this essay focuses on several aspects of the problem […]
[…] the audio version of this piece here. Although members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints shared many values with their Christian neighbors, the differences between Mormons and non–Mormons during the […]
[…] to men. This is not so for the English word “man,” which has Germanic roots meaning “ human being” or “adult male human being.” Given this confusing and often contradictory cultural understanding of women, […]
[…] said, Rueckert gently plucks up and studies some guarded pebbles and gems that may hide in all human hearts, and her account records these explorations skillfully and with unusual honesty. I admit I thoroughly […]