[…] uncertainties, both about what will happen next and what is actually happening now. Does Lily have b orderline personality disorder, as her ex insists, or not? Who has been abusing whom? Has her ex […]
[…] of stability and safety will not undo what they’ve experienced; they face a lifetime—possibly longer—of work in order to heal. I know what I cannot do, but I also know where my strengths lie. […]
[…] This was not a static set of actions the Nephites were to take in every circumstance in order defend themselves but rather a belief that in each varying circumstance they would be inspired and […]
Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2013):188–206The scripture I have in mind, of course, is the Book of Mormon. What follows is a Gentile’s appreciation—even recommendation—of this well-known but largely unread example of worldclass scripture.
[…] “The discursive construction” of Mormons as “queer” is, in the end, “itself a racializing civilizational assemblage in order to recenter the production and management of unexceptional . . . queer subjects” (305). Historians, Mohrman prods, have only […]
[…] came time to write my own poetry. Letting go of that need to control the language in order to listen to it, to listen for the “muse’s” whispers, has been a decades-long effort. When […]
Dialogue 33.4 (Winter 2001):127–173
Upon an initial and cursory reading, the book appears to be a simple morality play. A zealous purveyor of an unusual gustatory selection hawks his wares to an Everyman, whose initial […]
[…] that brings me to admit what I will tell you now, namely, that when it comes to the Book of Mormon, that most correct of books, whose pedigree we love passionately to debate and […]
[…] and long suffering, and that a man’s authority over a woman gives him the opportunity not to order her about but to protect and serve her. Husbands who browbeat their wives will soon have […]
[…] (1973): 109–126
To answer that question we needed to create some instruments with which we could ga ther the data. We are currently engaged in that instrument-building phase. As one step in that process, […]