The Gilded Door
March 20, 2018[…] was why Bishop Keating walked in on Latham Runyon’s Gospel Doctrine class. He looked like Dr. Bad News, and the class looked up like all the relatives in the waiting room. He rubbed the […]
[…] was why Bishop Keating walked in on Latham Runyon’s Gospel Doctrine class. He looked like Dr. Bad News, and the class looked up like all the relatives in the waiting room. He rubbed the […]
[…] for Sunday, and Mum always says that Sundays are easier to face with a clean house. But today she might just be sitting at the table in the kitchen, wet-faced and dribbly-nosed, staring at […]
[…] Ensign, November 2001 (accessed July 19, 2011). L. Tom Perry, “Fathers’ Role Is Anchoring Families,” LDS Church News, April 10, 2004, 15. Julie B. Beck, “A ‘Mother Heart,’” Ensign, May 2004, 76 (accessed July […]
[…] a meticulous and scholarly fashion. Both Souls in Transition and Shield of Faith reveal some very good news about LDS youth; however, it is the BYU volume that reveals the group’s most significant challenges. […]
[…] an eighteen-year-old greenhorn with a mild temperament and a downy upper lip, lands his first real job, breaking horses for a rancher near Evanston, Wyoming. While he has the rare and sought-after talent for […]
[…] would echo this request for new Latter-day Saint hymns, both texts and music, to be written. Ï am a doctoral candidate in church music at the University of Southern California, and my dissertation project […]
[…] Studies or Shaker Studies? We all know the answer (there are zero Oneida Perfectionists or Shakers living today), but rehashing this question in the context of a book that compares followers of John Humphrey […]
[…] it seems improbable, if not impossible, that the promises will be fulfilled. For many in our world today, the situation is similar. Billions of people in the world today live in poverty. Millions starve […]
[…] She was dangerously premature—especially so for those days. Everyone said that at birth she could have fit on a dinner plate (an image that haunted my young imagination). She wasn’t expected to survive. But […]
[…] reflection, I spent several days reading the memoirs and blogs of Mormon feminists. So many of their stories are about the difficulty of fitting their lives into the narratives that the Church has written […]