[…] $27.99. ISBN: 9781982185824. Jana Riess comes to a similar conclusion in her own review of McCurdy’s work: “What ‘I’m Glad My Mom Died’ Teaches Us About Ex-Mormons,” Flunking Sainthood, Religious News Service, May 30, 2023.
[…] by Bookcraft and Deseret Book which are already well advertised in The Improvement Era and The Church News, but some of these will be given short critical reviews in a book notes section, beginning […]
[…] 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, […]
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