Moroni 12
December 22, 2023My father has appeared—not in a dream—and shown me where to haul the plates off to,a harder task now that I had the recordsof Mormon whole and Ether shortened upand needed a bigger box to…
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Commitment Beyond Custom | Michael Fillerup, The Year They Gave Women the Priesthood and Other Stories
December 22, 2023I once had a bishop who was as guileless as he was faithful, a good and generous man who worked hard and loved us, his ward members, tirelessly. He liked to tell our ward’s young…
Voices of Global Mormon Women | Caroline Kline, Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and thePower of Connectedness
December 22, 2023While some critique oral history methods, Caroline Kline’s Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness takes significant strides to substantiate the benefits of the method. Among these critiques are the…
Faithful Pioneers and the Roots of a Global Church | F. LaMond Tullis, Grass Roots in Mexico:Stories of Pioneering Latter-day Saints
December 22, 2023F. LaMond Tullis’s Grass Roots in Mexico: Stories of Pioneering Latter-day Saints explores the lives of nineteen people who influenced the founding and growth of Mormonism in Mexico. Tullis is a retired professor of political…
Peculiar No More? | K. Mohrman, Exceptionally Queer:Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism
December 22, 2023It is a common adage that Mormons are a “peculiar people.” The phrase, taken from the Bible, is meant to imply that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints paved their own…
Reviving Desdemona | Dayna Patterson, O Lady, Speak Again
December 22, 2023When I began analyzing literature in high school, I was trained to see a poem as a thing made perfect by intent, by genius, an idea that prepared me to become adept at finding an…
The Book of Mormon Art Catalog: An Interview with Director Jennifer Champoux
December 22, 2023MOH: Please introduce the project and tell us a bit about how it works. JC: Thank you, I’m so excited to share this great new resource! The Book of Mormon Art Catalog is a comprehensive…
“What if . . .?” and “How so . . .?” and “I wonder . . .” Mix with LDS Doctrine and Culture to Generate Each Story in The Darkest Abyss | William Morris, The Darkest Abyss: Strange Mormon Stories
September 19, 2023“Mormon speculative fiction” must surely be one of the most niche genres available, and William Morris’s new story collection, The Darkest Abyss: Strange Mormon Stories, published by BCC Press, is a standout and quirky addition…
Making the Shadow Conscious | Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage
September 19, 2023One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious. Carl Jung I’ll start with both a declaration and a disclaimer: East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with…
Eve’s Choice
September 19, 2023Dialogue 56.3 (Fall 2023): 133–150
But Betsy was born. She was dangerously premature—especially so for those days. Everyone said that at birth she could have fit on a dinner plate (an image that haunted my young imagination). She wasn’t expected to survive. But she did. Perfect, whole, healthy.