[…] early 1830s in response to those revelations. “Each church believes it has the correct map of the world,” Patterson observes (4). The Community of Christ owns the most land, including the site of its […]
[…] poems. “Poetry,” she explained to me, “is language, and language is what was used to form this world.” She continued, “I see poetry as ceremony.” Indeed, Rain Scald invites readers into an intricate, simultaneously […]
[…] President of the L.D.S. Genesis Group. She has been the Secretary of the Utah Chapter of Afro- American Historical & Genealogical Society for 7 years, serves annually on the Utah Juneteenth Organizing Committee, is […]
[…] binary under the guise of God’s law, but their method of excluding queerness from Mormonism is slowly breaking down with the rise of queer Latter-day Saint visibility, activism, theology, and sympathy. To be clear, […]
[…] community become your advocates and your defenders and your best friends, the people who, in the whole world, make you feel most safe and most loved. And added to that depth of human love […]
Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 45–50
“I am the mother of a queer son. I am also an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as a professor at […]
[…] feeling this, and then I realized I was feeling it for you. There are many—both in this world and in the next—who are deeply concerned over you. They do not wish to usurp your […]
[…] be unintentional differences from the printed version. For citational and bibliographical purposes, please use the printed version or the PDFs provided online and on JSTOR. See Julie B. Beck, “Remembering, Repenting, and Changing,” Apr. 2007.
[…] most crucial moments held up a mirror to what was happening in society around them. The post– World War II economic boom that catapulted many white Americans to material success inaugurated a brief era […]
[…] Mormon history and the backlash of fear and punitiveness that accompanied that discovery. Walking back into that world dominated by Mark E. Petersen, Ezra Taft Benson, Bruce R. McConkie, and Boyd K. Packer was […]