[…] in William E. Evenson and Duane E. Jeffery, Mormonism and Evolution: The Authoritative LDS Statements (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2005), 54–67. Boyd K. Packer, “All-Church Coordinating Council Meeting,” May 18, 1993. Gould, […]
[…] Armand L. Mauss, Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport: Intellectual Journeys of a Mormon Academic (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2012), chap. 8. I’m fully aware that my positive encounters with Church […]
When the curtain rises on the Ju deo-Christian garden story, we encounter a series of in-between or liminal phenomena: 1) Adam and Eve, who represent neither fallen humanity nor exalted deities, who “have no […]
[…] in which she is trapped, during a snowstorm, in a motel room with her bishop. In “Cedar City,” the point of view moves back and forth between the unworthy missionary and the young woman […]
[…] place and faith harnessed in the book is distinct to Barber, who grew up in in Boulder City, Nevada, a town created by the Department of the Interior—her grandmother sang at the opening of […]
[…] Jesus Christ. They left Europe and traveled with other devout Saints to Utah, settling in Salt Lake City and Vernal. Fast forward a century or so and my father still practices Mormonism. I’m certain […]
[…] he dreamed her. Later, it hovered the holy fire over Kirtland, sheltered the long march to the Missouri, and bent over the new temple at Nauvoo. Nearing the end, standing on the far side […]
[…] altars: their marriages and children. For this reason, Mormon cosmology is based on a required gender recipro city. Men and women are, as scholar Amy Hoyt has written, “interdependent and must rely on each […]
[…] looked forward to Paul’s beautiful sketches of their house and lot on Roberta Street in Salt Lake City. Lavina was instrumental in the publication of The Backslider. Asked by Signature Books to evaluate my […]
[…] Young, documents that had been misfiled in the papers of the early years of the Salt Lake City High Council. Archives personnel approved my request for copies, and maybe a year later or so […]