Mette Ivie Harrison
Mette Ivie Harrison is an award-winning, national bestselling, New York Times Notable author of The Bishop's Wife and many other novels for adults and teens.
Review: Call to Action: Hope of Nature George B. Handley, The Hope of Nature
Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 2
The Hope of Nature is structured with three sets of three (I might be tempted here to make a Star Wars three trilogies joke, but I will refrain for the sake of a serious forum).…
Read moreMother’s Blessing
Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 1
She puts her hands on my head
By the power of the divine womanhood we both share,
And blesses me to love myself, to love others,
To feel power in moving forward,
To see clearly, and kindly.
What’s a Mormon Expert to Do?
Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 3
When I sold The Bishop’s Wife, a contemporary murder mystery set in Utah, to a national press in 2012, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what my “bio” would be. I…
Read moreMy New Temples
Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 1
The beach is my temple,
The water the voice of God shooshing toward me, inviting, calm,
The stones the decorations that light the fire of the pillar,
The sand the handshake that draws me to the holy of holies.
Resurrection
Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 4
Since he was a child, he’d dreamed of himself in one form and woken up, always disappointed, always jolted by the reality and by the way that others looked at him. In the first years,…
Read moreWhen Feminists Excommunicate
Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 1
Dialogue 50.1 (Spring 2017): 183–192
I am concerned about the ways in which I see patriarchy swallow up the demands of feminism and use them against women. Each time we gain som