Symbols on Canvas
April 29, 2020[…] of understanding that women cannot reclaim power in isolation. We need the support of each other in order to succeed. Something happens through the sense of touch. There is a transference of energy or […]
[…] of understanding that women cannot reclaim power in isolation. We need the support of each other in order to succeed. Something happens through the sense of touch. There is a transference of energy or […]
[…] is a recent convert to the LDS Church and had to walk away from her ordination in order to be baptized. She works as a therapist in Seattle. Nancy Ross is a professor and […]
I never wanted a son. I feel the heavy ugliness of those words like rough stones in my hands, taste them like shame on my tongue. Children have always been alien creatures to me, […]
Rachel O’Brien Rockwood Wainwright Harker— the narrator and eponymous heroine of John Bennion’s new mystery novel Ezekiel’s Third Wife, has four last names, none of which is superfluous. Together, they tell a remarkable story […]
This essay originally responded to a call in the announced theme for the 2009 Annual Conference of the Association for Mormon Letters: “Proving Contraries.” It explicitly honors, as the AML Conference theme implicitly honored, […]
[…] the obituary, knowing deep down that my visibility in the task, my step towards him outside patriarchal order, would have threatened, terrified him still. In a similar manner, I, and women like me, seem […]
Dialogue 52.3 (Fall 2019): 62–83 De Schweintiz documents how students at BYU still hear racist reasons for the priesthood/temple ban in classes, missions, Gospel Doctrine, sacrament meeting talks and even in books published by […]
[…] irrelevant. Only pedants and fools think that they can stand in the path of linguistic evolution and order language itself to stop doing what it wants to do. Well, pedants, fools, and the Académie […]
Dialogue 52.3 (Fall 2019): 1–18 Shields argues that if you deny or dismiss Sidney Ridgon’s contributions to the early church, then the scripture canon during this time would need to be reinterpreted.
Dialogue 52.1 (Spring 2019): 17–32 I do not lend the weight of truth to the language of ritual. Such language is symbolic. But even in the context of symbolism, language that is so preferential […]