Lately, I have been thinking a lot about mortality—meetings and partings and human frailty. The poet Geoffrey Hill is retiring from teaching at Boston University this year, and a few weeks ago I heard […]
[…] in many different ways” (xii). Spirited public discussion in the media, in symposia, and in rapidly multiplying online forums of every facet of LDS doctrine and practice makes this new diversity increasingly evident. The […]
[…] flow like ice streams. Nothing beneath me looks random, though I am told all seeming stillness and order are chaos, the silence below filled with sound we don’t hear. I wake from a doze […]
[…] closer inspection, it’s a reference book that had to adopt an oversize format with fold-out pages in order to convey a vast amount of information in an accessible manner. However, much of the material […]
John W. Welch’s CV is enough to trigger fatigue in even the most prolific of scholars. As founding director of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS), Welch introduced a new generation […]
My goal here is twofold. First, I want to demonstrate that current notions about dissent in the Church—whether it is good or bad—are inadequate because the language available for talking about dissent is insufficient. […]
[…] within me when I read them on a bright autumn day in 1980. I was then in the first few months of my LDS mission in central Virginia. But reading those words took my […]
[…] to her usual spot at the bottom of the stairs that go up to where you can order drinks. It’s a good spot because it’s private, and you can climb two stairs and see […]
[…] the printed version. For citational and bibliographical purposes, please use the printed version or the PDFs provided online and on JSTOR. [1] “Governor Paterson’s Remarks on the Introduction of a Marriage Equality Bill,” April […]
Dialogue 42.4 (Winter 2009): 106–141 After Prop 22 passed, it was overturned by the courts as a violation of the equal protection clause of the CA constitution. Opponents of same-sex marriage devised a new […]