There is Work to Do First
April 15, 2024[…] the Church as the text for new lesson cycles it was reprinted at least 16 times in English (including in 1935, ’40, ’43, ’49, ’51, ’53, ’56, ’58, ’60, ’63, ’66, ’72, ’78, and […]
[…] the Church as the text for new lesson cycles it was reprinted at least 16 times in English (including in 1935, ’40, ’43, ’49, ’51, ’53, ’56, ’58, ’60, ’63, ’66, ’72, ’78, and […]
[…] a fire” (4). Sottile never forgot the story. She followed the girl’s life as she appeared in news stories—first as a teenager raising money for animal shelters in nearby Post Falls and then as […]
[…] story: “I chase away my mother’s blue beasts, / concoct a strong spell to keep her from breaking / out of my childhood” (8). In “Ophelia, amphibian,” she reimagines Ophelia’s death as a metamorphosis, […]
[…] God speaking to me about my unique situation, a basic tenet of Latter-day Saint doctrine. The good news that “the heavens were not closed” is an essential part of our religion’s origin story. Farm […]
1Today we scorn Russians,But we were invaders, too.Our lifestyle at stake in Iraq.Searching but not finding.Blood and bones and dirt.Infection and tears.Fighting to prove . . . what?Truth? America? God on our side? Twenty years ago, I heard…
[…] and then it’s slow. It’s joyful and then it’s hopeless. It’s silly and then it’s serious. It’s breaking and then it’s healing. It’s always full of life. I love you, brother. Until we meet […]
[…] “new Mormon scholarship” is an oxymoron, please control that twitch. Again, no symbolism here.) I am no English major nor am I into literary criticism, I think deconstruction is youth who vandalize. Be sides, […]
“Coming Out” Again, Joanna Brooks
Building the Kingdom with Total Honesty, Boyd Kirkland
Dilemmas Everywhere, Armand L. Mauss
A Warm, Grateful Feeling, Lane J. Wolfley
True Intolerance, Thomas G. Alexander
Adam McLain is a MA/PhD student in the English department and first-year writing instructor at the University of Connecticut. He writes and researches on dystopian literature, legal theory, and sexual ethics. His recent publications […]
[…] such powerlessness, is seen as one of Jacob’s overarching themes. For Sharon J. Harris, assistant professor of English at BYU, covenant and inheritance function in some ways as the centralizing topics found in her […]