The First Letter She Found
October 17, 2025Oh Ellie, how to start? I keep thinking about the temple. I guess I’ll start there. I put my temple clothes and my garments in a bag and buried the bag in the back of…
DiaBLOGue
(atonement poem)
October 17, 2025The black hole
of god’s salvation
is here
Christian Laboratory: Mormon and Protestant Missions in Ideological and Geographical Peripheries | David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones, eds., Missionary Interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
October 17, 2025The book Missionary Interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones, provides a significant contribution to the historiography of Christian missions by comparatively examining…
Reviving the Book of Mormon’s Message for Modern Discipleship | Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming, The Book of Mormon for the Least of These
October 17, 2025Too frequently, I have the experience of anxiously awaiting Sunday School to start so I can ask about a text from the week’s reading that’s relevant to what’s happening in the world, only to be…
Groundwork for Future Study | Amanda Beardsley and Mason Allred, eds., Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader
October 17, 2025According to Oxford University Press, Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader is “the first comprehensive critical examination of Mormon art.” This grand claim stakes out the territory that the book purports to cover: It presents…
Mormons in the French Mirror: Nineteenth-Century Reflections and Refractions | Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee, Marianne Meets the Mormons: Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France
October 17, 2025In the nineteenth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints captured the French imagination, making Mormons and Mormonism prevalent themes in journalism, art, literature, politics, and popular culture. In Marianne Meets the Mormons:…
Confronting Men’s Violence Against Women and Girls in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
October 17, 2025An undercurrent of violence against women and girls (VAWG) exists in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Church professes commitment to support victims of sexual abuse and its declared policy of zero…
“Saving the Constitution” with White Christian Nationalism: Ezra Taft Benson, W. Cleon Skousen, and Their Attempt to Solicit the Help of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
October 17, 2025When Mormon apostle Ezra Taft Benson moved to the nation’s capital in 1953 to begin his duties as the Secretary of Agriculture, he had a secret to keep. The president of the Church of Jesus…
Secret Societies and the Political Context of Joseph Smith’s Rewritten Scripture
October 17, 2025The rise of anti-Masonry was a significant historical and political occurrence in the United States in the late 1820s while Joseph Smith, Jr. worked on the Book of Mormon in 1829.[1] Scholars often invoke anti-Masonry…
Discretion
October 17, 2025Watching the boy rage into being
I recall the parting restraints
Arranged through infancy ascending
Through tantrum to disenchantment