Volume 57, No. 1

In the Book of Mormon, when Ammon is preaching to King Lamoni and his household, we meet a believing Lamanitish servant named Abish, who had “been converted unto the Lord for many years, on account…

1. Introduction You can tell you are from Utah if you are Jaxton, your mother is Sariah, and your grandparents are Alma and LaRue. Jokes such as this one, which center on the creative names…

I’m standing at this lectern in large part because I wrote a book called On Zion’s Mount. Many, many times since 2007, the year I finished the manuscript in Los Angeles and relocated to Long…

Sonya has been sober almost a year—six months in treatment and six months on her own—and goes to AA meetings at noon or at 7:00 p.m. (sometimes both times) every day. She smokes Camel 100s…

We shall be driven to great extremities. I know not what to think of it. Daniel Defoe, Journal of a Plague Year By the end of the fifth wave, people didn’t want to hear about…

I stood in a winding stone corridor. At the end of the hall was an inviting bright light. Unclear as to where I was, I slowly and carefully headed in the direction of the glimmering…

For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither…

The brussels sprouts were good, the falafel was good, and the fries were better than good, but what Farmer and the Seahorse did spectacularly were its bathroom stalls. They were narrow and wood-walled with thick…

I am surprised your pale lips lack frothat their edges, that you come to me clean, you claim that Jesus and Elohimseparate appeared in temporal cloth before you. You lie. We know from scripturefather and…

  —Hosea 1; 2:15, 18, 23; 8:7 She digs a hole and blows into itplants the breath of her mouthand waits for the storm She waters the seeds untilher garden of wind sways withthe rhythmic…

My shins are dirt-covered. My hands tightenround piles of leaves. These trees rise roundclothed in woolen bark and silver lichen.Stained glass sky, branches flux and foil,and kaleidoscopic light strikes the groundwhose green intersects the red…

—Moses 6 Even as a young child he saw in ways others did notWhen his mother sang him the old storieshe would open his inner eyes and seethe lanky cerulean legs of cloudsas they walked…

      —Genesis 25 as he sits across the room holding a pear in one and a knife in the otherShe thinks of all the things those hands held and touchedbefore they held and touched her…

In sleep voices fall upon me once againwith bladed-tongues that run against their teeth. The voices’ chorus a grind of bone sawsand caliper-fingers that force openmy mouth to let loose words. Thousands of wordsbled from…

The Good Doctor Muses, Beetle-pupil swell, perpetually redhalo-iris fist-sized and yellowed-tearedthe abscess winks, another eye for Godto see sticks shake in our hands over sodas we water witch the fields desperateto pay the lancing fee.  Can…

The Good Doctor Muses,Will You be bound? And I Remember,Surgeons ask and tapmy swollen shin and splinter the skin to leechout the infection. The leather straps snapin calloused hands while others reachinto cowhide and pigskin…

Since the 1840s, the leadership and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, even with its global missionary program, has been centered with a focus on the North American Great Basin westward…

The Restoration’s “oldest enemies” have finally come together in their first collaborative publication to examine the similarities and differences between the Missouri-based Community of Christ (formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day…

When I received a review copy of Terryl and Nathaniel Givens’ new book Into the Headwinds: Why Belief Has Always Been Hard—and Still Is, I was warned by the author that as a book about…

On May 16, 2005, Joseph Edward Duncan murdered Brenda Groene, her thirteen-year-old son, and her boyfriend. Police officers in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, found their bodies “face down in a welter of blood” (1). They didn’t…

In 1997, while I was a student at Brigham Young University, the BYU Museum of Art (MOA) hosted a traveling exhibit of sculptures by Auguste Rodin, The Hands of Rodin: A Tribute to B. Gerald…

Because some leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have endorsed and promoted racism in their theology, practices, doctrine, curricula, and culture for much of its existence, an organized, multifaceted approach is…

I am not Black, but my ancestors are. Had I been of age before 1978, I would not have received the priesthood. I think about this as I consider the history of racism in Brazil.…

James C. Jones interviewed Dr. Cornel West in February 2023 in New York, New York. Jones: One of the first things that I wanted to just ask, Dr. West, is about your general experience or even your introduction…

“So how does the priesthood ban make you feel?” At the time I didn’t have the right tools to answer my freshman year religious studies professor at Brigham Young University, so I muttered something about…

In giving my remarks a title, I have quite promiscuously mixed two statements from the New Testament that come from different speakers, at different times, addressing different audiences for different reasons. I even supplied my…

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints isn’t the only major Christian denomination to have a history of racism. But it is the largest in the United States to have had a codified form…

Introduction I and many Mormons ache to apologize for our 130-year practice of excluding people of Black African ancestry from temple and priesthood participation. We long to apologize for our community’s attempts during and afterwards…