In 2014, R. de la Lanza spent his morning commute feverishly writing. All through the long bus ride from his home in the southern part of Mexico City to his work at a university […]
“How did your mama die?” I ask Grandma Essie, my dad’s mother. She looks down at the floor. “She died of quinsy.” Something doesn’t feel quite right to eight-year-old me.
My brain is slightly broken. The natural lows and highs of life are amplified by chemical imbalance into deep emotional troughs and crazed manic waves that can strike anytime and for any reason. I […]
Dialogue 54.1 (Spring 2021): 53–57 Some feel that “smashing the patriarchy” is the ultimate goal of what they define as “feminism.” That is not my opinion. Each of us—female and male—have power given us […]
[…] its historical context and glean from it new possibilities. Drawing on feminist interpretive strategies, Huston reads for the “theological trajectory,” rather than the plain meaning, to discern principles that might endure beyond a narrowly […]
[…] media groups more generally: among those who participated in a snowball survey shared in ex-Mormon affinity groups online, only three in ten did not have a college degree. The subgroup who are active in […]
At the end of the nineteenth century, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, having semi-retired from her fight for women’s suffrage, decided to create what would come to be known as The Woman’s Bible. This biblical production […]
[…] of bread and a thimble of water in remembrance of the One who descended below and rose above, in order to redeem him and everyone else, in a world that looks like it created itself.
Over the years, the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has expressed a set of theories about the nature and purpose of music. Elder Bruce R. McConkie asserted a […]
[…] and militant minority making their influence felt through out the electorate. A few examples may illustrate in order for us to draw our conclusions: We noted the strong feeling of some of the membership […]