[…] accounts of most value to each reader. I remember Douglas P. Bush’s account of his patriarchal blessing—not for its actual words, but for what the patriarch years later told him he had seen in […]
[…] from “insularity to universality,” to use Shipp’s words, is a major thread holding this collection together ( 6). For Shipps to grasp the full significance of this metamorphosis, she had to get a handle […]
This morning I light red candles and set them on the sill, daring the breeze through an open window to tease the flames.
[…] boards the boat of the male disciples (57). This image of Jesus as a “women’s man” is counter to the LDS culture which encourages male bonding to such a degree that women’s viewpoints often […]
D. Jeff Burton, Tolerance for “Cultural Mormons” Gerry L. Ensley, Joseph, Peepstones, and Pirates Dan Vogel, Serving Two Masters Gary James Bergera, Civility, Compassion, Honesty Richard L. Bushman, Fair-Minded People Sarah Barringer Gordon, Jana […]
[…] at the same time, Jeff maintains that these people are genuine, and the Marxist in me doesn’t buy it. The problem is that, when you get down to brass tacks, the Lowerys are completely […]
[…] variety), revelation, hierarchy, etc.; the working definition offered is “rules that controlled and governed the universe” ( 6). Conceived as a dialectic, relations and principles nuance a number of LDS categories. Regarding theological anthropology: […]
[…] When I married Kyle, I even wondered if she was jealous. Kyle’s latest romantic gesture was to buy us two one-way tickets to Australia. A few weeks after I had Stella, he came bursting […]
[…] ungrounded. I spin course by stars I cannot see and trust in winds I do not control. Over the green I soar, in accord with a finely drawn yet constantly changing map in my […]
Looking out of my window across my lawn, I see a red toy wheelbarrow tipped over, abandoned beside the sidewalk. Its redness is something I experience distinctly. Undeniably, I might be deceived, and there […]