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Fall 2020

The Fall 2020 Issue begins with an article from James Faulconer on “Performative Theology; Not Such a New Thing,” and an article on “Revisiting Joseph Smith and the Availability of the Book of Enoch.” It also has some wonderful reviews of DJ Butler’s fiction as well as multiple books on Mormon cinema and more!. Includes beautiful poetry and finishes with a sermon on “Pray Without Ceasing” by previous editor Boyd Petersen.

Contents

Performative Theology: Not Such a New Thing Articles/Essays Theology

Performative Theology: Not Such a New Thing

James E.Faulconer

On Care: Performative Theology, Mosiah, and a Gathered Community Articles/Essays Scriptures

On Care: Performative Theology, Mosiah, and a Gathered Community

Jenny Webb

Revisiting Joseph Smith and the Availability of the Book of Enoch Articles/Essays Joseph Smith

Revisiting Joseph Smith and the Availability of the Book of Enoch

Colby Townsend

The Limits of Naturalistic Criteria for the Book of Mormon: Comparing Joseph Smith and Andrew Jackson Davis Articles/Essays Joseph Smith

The Limits of Naturalistic Criteria for the Book of Mormon: Comparing Joseph Smith and Andrew Jackson Davis

William Davis

Born Again Poetry Poetry

Born Again

Christopher Bissett

Genesis Chiasmus Poetry Poetry

Genesis Chiasmus

Luisa Perkins

Daryl Prays, The Snake River, and Insomnia Poetry Poetry

Daryl Prays, The Snake River, and Insomnia

Tamara Pace Thomson

The Stars Saw God Poetry Poetry

The Stars Saw God

Chris A. Peck

Becky, Not God Poetry Poetry

Becky, Not God

Henry Landon Miles

Three Dogs in the Afterlife Fiction Theology

Three Dogs in the Afterlife

Luisa Perkins

A Blessing for Starting Over Art Art, Theology

A Blessing for Starting Over

Joanna Brooks

Elegy for the Eaten Art Art, Theology

Elegy for the Eaten

Madison Daniels

The Cunning Man and Fiction of the Mormon Corridor D. J. Butler and Aaron Michael Ritchey. The Cunning Man Reviews Literature

The Cunning Man and Fiction of the Mormon Corridor D. J. Butler and Aaron Michael Ritchey. The Cunning Man

James Goldberg

As Above, So Below: Mormonism Mattathias Singhin D. J. Butler’s Kaleidoscopic Cosmological Fantasy D. J. Butler. Witchy Eye D. J. Butler. Witchy Winter D. J. Butler. Witchy Kingdom Reviews Literature

As Above, So Below: Mormonism Mattathias Singhin D. J. Butler’s Kaleidoscopic Cosmological Fantasy D. J. Butler. Witchy Eye D. J. Butler. Witchy Winter D. J. Butler. Witchy Kingdom

Goldberg Westwood

The Things We Make True Michael William Palmer. Baptizing the Dead and Other Jobs Reviews Mormon Studies

The Things We Make True Michael William Palmer. Baptizing the Dead and Other Jobs

Susan Meredith Hinckley

Karen Anderson’s Excavation of Ghosts Karin Anderson. Before Us Like a Land of Dreams Reviews Poetry

Karen Anderson’s Excavation of Ghosts Karin Anderson. Before Us Like a Land of Dreams

Lauren Matthews

History Written in Celluloid Randy Astle. Mormon Cinema: Origins to 1952 Reviews History, Theater

History Written in Celluloid Randy Astle. Mormon Cinema: Origins to 1952

Davey Morrison

Latter-Day Screens: Mormonism in Popular Culture Brenda R. Weber. Latter-Day Screens: Gender, Sexuality & Mediated Mormonism Reviews Theater, History

Latter-Day Screens: Mormonism in Popular Culture Brenda R. Weber. Latter-Day Screens: Gender, Sexuality & Mediated Mormonism

Conor Bruce Hilton

Beauty in the Irreversible Lisa Van Orman Hadley. Irreversible Things Reviews Feminism

Beauty in the Irreversible Lisa Van Orman Hadley. Irreversible Things

Sarah Nickel Moore

Sunni Brown Wilkinson. The Marriage of the Moon and the Field Reviews Poetry

Sunni Brown Wilkinson. The Marriage of the Moon and the Field

Elizabeth Cranford Garcia

Lessons in Scriptural Origami James Goldberg. Remember the Revolution.James Goldberg. The First Five Dozen Tales of Razia Shah and Other Stories Reviews Literature

Lessons in Scriptural Origami James Goldberg. Remember the Revolution.James Goldberg. The First Five Dozen Tales of Razia Shah and Other Stories

Chad Daniel Curtis

Modern Mormonism, Gender, and the Tangled Nature of History Gregory A. Prince. Gay Rights and the Mormon Church Reviews LGBT Issues, History

Modern Mormonism, Gender, and the Tangled Nature of History Gregory A. Prince. Gay Rights and the Mormon Church

Benjamin E. Park

Remembering Jane Manning James Quincy D. Newell. Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon Reviews Race, History

Remembering Jane Manning James Quincy D. Newell. Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon

Charlotte Hansen Terry

Mormon Modernity David Walker. Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West Reviews History

Mormon Modernity David Walker. Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West

Dmitri Brown

Pray Without Ceasing From the Pulpit Theology

Pray Without Ceasing

Boyd Jay Peterson