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Patience, Faith, and the Temple in 2019
May 13, 2019Dialogue 52.1 (2019): 169–178
Young shares her testimony of temple work even though she found some wording in the endowment ceremony sexist.
A Personal Conversion | David C. Dollahite, God’s Tender Mercies: Sacred Experiences of a Mormon Convert
May 13, 2019Brigham Young University School of Family Life professor David C. Dollahite’s memoir God’s Tender Mercies primarily focuses on Dollahite’s conversion, his mission to the Boston area, and his courtship and marriage to Mary Kimball. One…
Feminism, Polygamy, and Murder | John Bennion, An Unarmed Woman.
May 13, 2019“I’m like Alma’s daughters,” rough-and-tumble ranch girl Rachel O’Brian tells her polygamist stepfather J.D. Rockwell. “Someone has to speak up to you patriarchs” (118). An Unarmed Woman is a gripping murder mystery as well as…
Mere Tears and Torrents, Signs and Seals: The Sweet Semantic Everything of Troubled Love | Matthew James Babcock, Four Tales of Troubled Love
May 13, 2019If Matthew Babcock’s Four Tales of Troubled Love is about something, it is about private worlds; the reconciliation of self and other; the reckoning of what two people are with each other, without each other, and with the people that made them and that they make in turn; the luke and warm compromise of to-be-with-you and as-I-am.
An Astonishing String of Stories | Steven L. Peck, Tales from Pleasant Grove
May 13, 2019There is a kind of madness that comes from living in Utah. Its sources are many—tall mountains and vast deserts, the ability to see a hundred miles at a time, the imaginative force of a…
Bleakness or a Future with Unicorns? | Ryan Habermeyer, The Science of Lost Futures
May 13, 2019As I savored Ryan Habermeyer’s debut short-story collection The Science of Lost Futures, winner of the BOA Short Fiction Prize, I remembered a quote attributed to Dostoyevsky in which the prolific Russian author underscores the…
Finding God in the Abstract | Hildebrando de Melo and Glen Nelson, Nzambi (God): Hildebrando de Melo.
May 13, 2019Hildebrando de Melo is probably not a Mormon artist you’ve heard of. And that’s just the point. Mormon Arts Centerco-founders Glen Nelson and Richard Bushman believe that bringing lesser-known artists to the attention of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints enriches the audience and can facilitate a more dynamic engagement with religious art.
Excerpts from Before Us Like a Land of Dreams
May 13, 2019From “Homing” In which our protagonist, a crabby aging mother and professor, drives from Salt Lake City to her father’s birthplace—Safford, Arizona—to visit an infant’s gravesite. Year: 2016. Grandma Anderson said one of the best…
The Color of Longing
May 13, 2019After a painting by Emily Fox King
This blood, this longing was meant for
your particular darkness. That shadow,
the red droplet on the floor, a new wound:
These are mine to name. And in my name
you are known, no less worthy than your
brother. No less chosen for this canvas of
violence and change.