Spring 2011
January 24, 2011The Spring issue is on its way to the printer! Highlights include poetry by Timothy Liu, a nice fat book review section, Sam Brown’s much-anticipated article on the early Mormon “Chain of Belonging,” an especially […]
The Spring issue is on its way to the printer! Highlights include poetry by Timothy Liu, a nice fat book review section, Sam Brown’s much-anticipated article on the early Mormon “Chain of Belonging,” an especially […]
[…] directly to the heart of struggles within Mormon historiography. Many students of Mormon history continue the wars over Joseph Smith’s trustworthiness; many seek to account for his feats through appeals to environmental influence or […]
[…] Arben Fox at By Common Consent The October 2011 issue of Harper’s Magazine features as its c over article a lengthy, provocative, at times insightful, but mostly wholly tendentious anti-Mormon screed by Chris Lehmann, […]
[…] him to the forefront of church leadership for the rest of his life. Pratt’s missionary work–reaching from Canada to England, from Chile to California–won hundreds of followers, but even more important were his voluminous […]
[…] it? Are there “past concepts,” “embedded theological resources,” or “existing ideas” that can be drawn on to counter the “gender trouble” Petrey quite rightly identifies? Reproduction and Sealing Petrey’s article comes in three parts, […]
[…] 32, for which he served as editor), my eye immediately caught the blurb on the front c over, “Adam Miller is the most original and provocative Latter-day Saint theologian practicing today.” My immediate response […]
[…] href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1589586883/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1589586883&linkCode=as2&tag=bycomcon-20&linkId=FJTRSNKVXGT2JG54″>Women at Church: Magnifying LDS Women’s Local Impact (released today) appears at a tense moment for LDS church members with regard to gender issues. Some members have advocated for ordaining women to […]
[…] content (italics mine). While Larson is probably correct that this practice could not be the only reason for the separation, he errs that this practice was or is an archival practice. One of the […]
[…] in 1200 AD would have seen an Islamic world dedicated to science and learning—one that had disc overed algebra, block printing, and brain surgery at a time when the Christian West was more than […]
[…] told I was too sensitive and couldn’t accept the good with the bad. I’ve also had more overt experiences of racism— like when I moved in my freshmen year I found out that my […]