Letter to the Editor
March 16, 2018Robert A. Rees, Reading Scripture
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On “Praying with Your Feet”
March 16, 2018I’m grateful for this invitation to speak to your quorum.
My objective today is to tell you about my faith journey and offer up some observations and possible conclusions. I’m going to speak the only way I know how: honestly and with complete candor. It means making myself vulnerable in front of group I don’t know well (yet), but we think you have a right to know your new stake presidency. If you sustain us as your leaders, then it seems you have a right to know exactly what it is you are sustaining.
A Big Task for a Small Book | Paul C. Gutjahr, The Book of Mormon: A Biography
March 16, 2018Paul Gutjahr’s The Book of Mormon: A Biography is one of the inaugural offerings from Princeton University Press’s Lives of Great Religious Books—a series that proposes a new lens for studying major religious texts such…
To the Edges of Modern Life | Hugh J. Cannon, To the Peripheries of Mormondom, Edited by Reid Neilson
March 16, 2018On December 4, 1920, apostles David O. McKay and Hugh J. Cannon set off on an around-the-world journey to visit every mission in the world and some of the most isolated congregations of the church.…
The Cultural Contexts of Mormonism | Kim Östman, The Introduction of Mormonism to Finnish Society, 1840–1900
March 16, 2018I moved from the United States to Finland a decade ago, and in the midst of a good deal of culture shock, I found comfort in what I perceived as the uniformity of Mormonism. I…
Faith and Doubt in the First-Person Singular | Therese Doucet, A Lost Argument: A Latter-Day Novel; Robert Rees, ed., Why I Stay: The Challenges of Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons; and Thomas Riskas, Deconstructing Mormonism:An Analysis and Assessment of the Mormon Faith
March 16, 2018In 1979, Mary Bradford published in these pages an important personal essay on personal essays. Titled “I, Eye, Aye,” the piece first outlines a brief history of the genre within Mormon letters and then offers its…
A Story-Telling Folk | Tom Mould, Still, the Small Voice: Narrative, Personal Revelation, and the Mormon Folk Tradition
March 16, 2018Editor’s Note: This article has footnotes. To review them, please see the PDF below. Mormons are a story-telling folk. The academic study of Mormon folklore began as a way to collect and analyze stories of…
Hank Toy’s Devil
March 16, 2018A devil came to an old Mormon on an icy winter night when mounds of snow outside, as big as cars, lay black and cold, nearly invisible. Having searched since the beginning of the world,…
Sandrine
March 16, 2018These things happened fifty years ago. It was 1962, the year of the World’s Fair in Seattle. I was twenty-one and had just finished my junior year at Utah State University in Logan. My forestry…
“Epithalamion” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
March 16, 2018HARK, hearer, hear what I do; lend a thought now, make believe
We are leafwhelmed somewhere with the hood
Of some branchy bunchy bushybowered wood,
Southern dene or Lancashire clough or Devon cleave,
That leans along the loins of hills, where a candycoloured