Rethinking Revelation
April 5, 2023When I was about twelve, yet another retelling of the Cinderella story was released into theatres in a magic-free but nonetheless magical version called Ever After. One of my favorite scenes in this film involves…
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On Tradition and a Nonbinary Revolution
March 29, 2023[…] and M. H. Abrams, “The Revolution Controversy and the ‘Spirit of the Age,’” in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 10th ed. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018), 202. Thomas Paine, “Rights of […]
The Enduring Vertigo of the Elect Lady Libbie Grant, The Prophet’s Wife
February 20, 2023Of the legacy of Joseph Smith, historian Bernard DeVoto wrote in 1936, “The vision perishes; it is the vertigo that endures.” Reading the novel The Prophet’s Wife by Libbie Grant is to feel that same…
First Place: His Own Hand
February 20, 2023I desire to be to the Eternal Goodness what his own hand is to a man.—Theologica Germanica i. What the Right Hand Is Take my right hand—the index finger crookedfrom a long-forgotten break; the dintwhere…
England’s Life of Paradox
September 1, 2022The attacks of September 11, 2001 are a spectacular reminder that the struggle between religion and politics is alive and well in the twenty-first century. Eugene England’s life, which ended just weeks before those attacks,…
The Seeking Heavenly Mother Project: Understanding and Claiming Our Power to Connect with Her
April 12, 2022[…] anything else about Her, Heavenly Mother didn’t feel real. Eventually Charlotte heard about Mother’s Milk: Poems in Search of Heavenly Mother by Rachel Hunt Steenblik and Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry, a […]
In Praise of Belly Buttons (four meditations)
April 12, 2022[…] for signs of Her presence in the grand and the mundane, from constellations to belly buttons. I search for Her like the hatchling bird in P. D. Eastman’s Are You My Mother? (As a […]
The Temple: Historical Origins and Religious Value
April 10, 2018[…] correcting “the morals of the community.” The secret oaths and penalties were not entirely effective, however, and news soon leaked out among the church that there was “a secret group of Saints, including women, […]
A Gentile Recommends the Book of Mormon
March 16, 2018[…] book that has attracted so few diligent readers. Critics have mocked its imitation of King James Bible English, its preposterous proper nouns, its apparent anachronisms, its convoluted plot lines. One wag claimed it would […]