Shifting Boundaries of Feminist Theology: What Have We Learned?
October 26, 2018Dialogue 50.1 (Spring 2017): 167–180
This tendency to rewrite Relief Society history continued from the
1850s into the 1990s.
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A Candid and Dazzling Conversation | Patrick Madden, Sublime Physick: Essays
October 26, 2018Patrick Madden’s second book of collected essays, following 2010’s Quotidiana (which won an award from the Association for Mormon Letters and was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award), bears the mark of…
The History that Dares Speak Its Name | J. Seth Anderson, LGBT Salt Lake
October 26, 2018Seth Anderson’s slim book, part of Arcadia Publishing’s multi-volume Images of Modern America photographic series, is much more than an important new contribution to Utah and LDS history. It is a revelation— a surprising, unexpected…
Attempts to Be Whole | Scott Abbott, Immortal for Quite Some Time
October 26, 2018In Immortal for Quite Some Time, Scott Abbott meditates on his brother’s death. That Abbott comes from a devoted Mormon family and that his brother was gay and died of AIDS is the tagline that…
The Truth is in the Middle | Stephen Carter and Jett Atwood, Mormonism for Beginners
October 26, 2018Introductory texts often face the challenge of which topics to cover and how much detail to include. In Mormonism for Beginners, author Stephen Carter and illustrator Jett Atwood strike the perfect balance between comprehensive survey…
Grand Canyon, North Rim
October 26, 2018The canyon is in the pines,
you find it there in sharps and flats,
rush at the edge, a thousand
improvisations of rain, needles, light fall.
Speaking for Herself | Ashley Mae Hoiland, One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God
October 26, 2018One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God is a collection of short missives—poems, essays, and autobiographical sketches— grouped loosely and thematically into thirteen sections and an epilogue. Ashley Mae Hoiland…
Ajalon Moon
October 26, 2018Five kings fell when Joshua prayed first for Gibeon sun
Then moonlight in the valley of Ajalon to stay slant and
Still beam; freeze a span of time beyond its allotted measure.
The Home Teacher
October 26, 2018Bishop warned Brock Hartman ahead of time. “They’ll ask for a food order.” He opened a desk drawer and took out a binder filled with requisitions for the storehouse. “But they have a decent income…
Invisible Men / Invincible Women | Eric Freeze, Invisible Men: Stories
October 26, 2018The gaze of the girl on the cover of Eric Freeze’s short story collection arrested me—stopped me. Her eyes, full of hostility, told me that if I opened the book, I would be intruding. Her…