[…] voluntary movement,” groups that “institutionalized the idea that women’s pious influence . . . could reform the world.” Since these women were already mobilized on behalf of the poor, the drunk, the fallen, the […]
[…] backward over the surface flowing just a few feet below, my mind would flow to a safe world inside me. There was the vacant lot across from Grandma Hartvigsen’s that grew pepper weeds three […]
[…] And here again came a surge of assurance of method mixed with all the madness in the world. Just looking at the metal letters with the backdrop of stars, I felt like a wayward […]
[…] Lake City and Sanpete County. And in San Francisco, Bangkok Florence Bombay Kiev and Chad, Nigeria. The world would simply go from boom to fire to ash. Evacuation? Shelters? No way. No hole big […]
[…] career. That I did not care to improve my craft before trying to announce myself to the world was the first of my failures and an example of my prideful tendencies, an obvious parallel […]
[…] 54.1 (Spring 2021): 69–79
Five years after my excommunication, I met and entered into a relationship with the man who is my husband to this day. We became a couple in 1991; we held […]
[…] He proposed that rocks fall downward when dropped because of their nature. After all, everything in the world was made up of four elements: earth, air, water, and fire. A rock, made of earth, […]
[…] habits based on our influences, develop a psyche based on a particular (usually inherited) view of the world, and act out these habits for many years. Psychological scholarship regarding agency mainly aligns with Adams, […]
Dialogue 56.1 (Spring 2023): 7–50
In the decade since I made that decision, a lot has happened that ultimately reoriented me back to the academy and to theological studies in particular. First, the job […]
[…] Riess, “Forty Years On, Most US Mormons Still Believe the Racist Priesthood/Temple Ban Was God’s Will,” Religion News, June 11, 2018, https://religionnews.com/2018/06/11/40-years-later-most-mormons-still-believe-the-racist-priesthood-temple-ban-was-gods-will/. Howard A. Christy, “Open Hand and Mailed Fist: Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah, […]