[…] Young University with degrees in Sociology and French. As a student at BYU, she ran for Provo City Council in 2017 and co-founded the BYU Women of Color Club. She is the author of […]
[…] great concern to the Latter-day Saints in Nauvoo. Many Saints had died in the Mormon War in Missouri during 1838 and in malaria-ridden Nauvoo in the early 1840s. Finding a way to, in a […]
[…] Scripture,” SquareTwo 8, no. 2 (Summer 2015). Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2007, 2011), 345. M. Russell Ballard, When Thou […]
“All the cousins knew Aunt Marla’s story. Her doctors in Salt Lake City said it was unlikely she could survive a pregnancy. So she and Uncle Bill adopted two beautiful children. Then, several years […]
[…] 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 […]