[…] drawl, who he was (“Hah there, Aah’m that guy . . .”), as if there were a chance in the world I would have forgotten him in the intervening hours. “How often,” I wondered, “does he think […]
[…] colonialism, and religion to frame its examination of Mormonism,” Mohrman explains, we can see that “ascendant white American nationalist formations” found root in even the most unique communities (14–15). The tradition that Joseph Smith […]
[…] J. Blum and Paul Harvey describe the use of the Christus in LDS “welcome centers” around the world noting that while “Blacks were technically welcome . . . they first had to pass by the powerful white […]
[…] expansive theology of feminists like Maxine Hanks and Margaret Toscano with “The Family: A Proclamation to the World.” It reiterated the Church’s fundamental belief that “marriage between a man and a woman is ordained […]
[…] the missionary culture and wanted a physical reminder that there were others like me out in the world. She mentioned pronoun pins, and in a moment of rash decision I asked for “they/them” as […]
[…] them. (Alma 33:20) Now flash forward to March 29, 2020. President Nelson asked the Church, and the world, to join in a worldwide fast for relief from the COVID-19 pandemic. He included, “As a […]
[…] there before, but now they were widely and accurately available to Church members and leaders around the world and accessible to outside scholars. The new tome placed them in context. It was cause for […]
[…] with the Poplars in her country lanes, They have known exile too And reach for their Old World home As you might for your in absentia. If by Richards’s own hand, these might be […]
[…] until the writings of Joseph W. Musser that Smith became identified with a particular deity of this world who consciously accepted a body. It was also under Musser that the doctrine was further concretized, […]
[…] race, queerness, feminisms, (dis)abilities, spiritualities, and any of the other ways that humans might move through the world. I look forward to those histories including more voices and testimonies. And I look forward to […]