Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.—William S. Burroughs (1914–1997)[1] Joseph Smith ascended to the revered position of…
Listen to an interview about this piece here. From 1986 to 1993, I was history curator at the Museum of Church History and Art in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the spring and summer of…
Listen to an interview about this piece here. My grandma was a collector. Of dolls, spoons, PEZ dispensers. When she died six years ago, all ten of her children were able to redistribute her hundreds of…
Listen to an interview about this piece here. I am a young mother. My arms have been full of putti almost exclusively for the past several years. I’ve done the work of mothering full-time for nearly…
I don’t want to let go of the rod. I don’t want to drift off and end up on paths that are dark, strange, and lonely. Sometimes I worry I may have already wandered without…
I don’t know who was sick. Maybe it was you. Let’s say it was.
You were sick and I was probably more worried than you (as per usual) but we brought our faith to our prayers and we pled that you would be healed. I anointed your head with oil. And I sealed that anointing and blessed you.
Ryan Habermeyer lays down the gauntlet immediately in Salt Folk with “La Petite Mort,” a series of micro-vignettes about a professional elephant masturbator (she is never referred to by any other appellation than “the elephant…
This collection of essays provides important new analyses of several of the religious groups that make up the broader Restoration movement begun by Joseph Smith Jr. in 1830, what the editors of this collection call…
Dear Editor, I respect Clyde Ford as a scholar and peacemaker, two roles we have in common. I also appreciate his challenges (“Reconsidering Reconciliation,” in Dialogue 57, no. 2 [Summer 2024], 1–3) to my article…
A foundational tenet and raison d’être of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is that a Great Apostasy occurred within the first few centuries of the early Christian era, resulting in the withdrawal…