Media attention is a two -edged sword with the potential for both positive and negative publicity. Still, many societal actors find it important to stay in people’s minds through media exposure. Religious movements, for […]
[…] Stenberg v. Carhart in 2000. The ruling struck down a Nebraska law that made performing a “partial -birth abortion” illegal. When a subject is highly controversial—and any question about sex is that—one cannot hope […]
[…] the priesthood ban in 1978 did not end racism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, nor did its official statement “Race and the Church: All Are Alike Unto God” in […]
Podcast version of this piece. You who more than oncespelled angle when meaning angel,are now one—maybe both.A sharp line on white paperdriving hardand fastin another spacewhose numbersI do not know. YetIn the arithmeticof our individual…
Podcast version of this piece. Scene: Thicket for a Slaughter We have seenbets, contests— only the greatones sent tospar with God: father, son,sacrifice. Scene: An Examination Question:the brain, a tangledbramble—the fire and the knife,a fearsomebinding.…
[…] is a former president of the Association for Mormon Letters, the current editor of Irreantum, and the author of such things as Byuck, Just Julie’s Fine, and The Prophetess of Mars, and the editor […]
Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 1–24 The November 2015 LDS handbook policy change that identified mem- bers who participate in same–sex marriages as “apostates” and forbade children in their households from receiving baby blessings or baptisms […]
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[…] main article. In that first article, among other matters, I explored briefly the inconsistent usage of second -person pronouns in the English translation of the Book of Mormon. In a nutshell, the text shifts […]
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