A Girl Named No Mercy
March 29, 2024—Hosea 1; 2:15, 18, 23; 8:7 She digs a hole and blows into itplants the breath of her mouthand waits for the storm She waters the seeds untilher garden of wind sways withthe rhythmic…
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Feeling Our Way toward Each Other | Gary Ettari, Mormonism, Empathy, and Aesthetics: Beholding the Body
March 29, 2024In 1997, while I was a student at Brigham Young University, the BYU Museum of Art (MOA) hosted a traveling exhibit of sculptures by Auguste Rodin, The Hands of Rodin: A Tribute to B. Gerald…
A Freakonomics Spin on Apologetics in Favor of Modern Irrationality | Terryl Givens and Nathaniel Givens, Into the Headwinds: Why Belief Has Always Been Hard—and Still Is
March 29, 2024When I received a review copy of Terryl and Nathaniel Givens’ new book Into the Headwinds: Why Belief Has Always Been Hard—and Still Is, I was warned by the author that as a book about…
Mormon Extremism and Zombies in Idaho | Leah Sottile, When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder Wild Faith, and End Times
March 29, 2024On May 16, 2005, Joseph Edward Duncan murdered Brenda Groene, her thirteen-year-old son, and her boyfriend. Police officers in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, found their bodies “face down in a welter of blood” (1). They didn’t…
The “Prairie Saints” and the “Mountain Saints” Enter the Interfaith Dialogue Movement | Andrew Bolton and Casey Paul Griffiths, eds. Restorations: Scholars in Dialogue from Community of Christ and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
March 29, 2024The Restoration’s “oldest enemies” have finally come together in their first collaborative publication to examine the similarities and differences between the Missouri-based Community of Christ (formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day…
The Developing Inclusion of Micronesia into the Utah Mormon Missionary Movement | R. Devan Jensen and Rosalind Meno Ram, eds., Battlefields to Temple Grounds: Latter-day Saints in Guam and Micronesia
March 29, 2024Since the 1840s, the leadership and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, even with its global missionary program, has been centered with a focus on the North American Great Basin westward…
Why Stand Ye Gazing Up into Heaven [When] the Kingdom of God Is Within You?
March 29, 2024In giving my remarks a title, I have quite promiscuously mixed two statements from the New Testament that come from different speakers, at different times, addressing different audiences for different reasons. I even supplied my…
The Town Minister Reacts to My Prophesy
March 29, 2024I am surprised your pale lips lack frothat their edges, that you come to me clean, you claim that Jesus and Elohimseparate appeared in temporal cloth before you. You lie. We know from scripturefather and…
Tiny Papers: Peruvian Mormon Substances of Relatedness
December 22, 2023Listen to a conversation about this piece here. JACOBA:[1] I have my genealogical abilities, and I wield them as I see fit. JASON: And you saw fit to marry your son to Chalo’s daughter? JACOBA:…
Correlating Orthodoxy and Style: Institutionally “Approved” Christ-Centered Art in LDS Visual Resources and Meetinghouses, 1990–2021
December 22, 2023Religious images have long been used in Latter-day Saint worship and instruction. Paintings, illustrations, and graphic works served a devotional function among the early Church members. Not only did the Latter-day Saints in Nauvoo use…