There’s No Such Thing as a Gospel Culture
October 26, 2018The Pauline image of the body of Christ provides us with a gorgeous image that every part of the Church as it is expressed through the diverse cultures abroad are vital for its […]
The Pauline image of the body of Christ provides us with a gorgeous image that every part of the Church as it is expressed through the diverse cultures abroad are vital for its […]
My grandfather was a medicine man, a practitioner of a ceremony called the Blessingway—Hozhoojii. The Blessingway is described as the foundation of Navajo spirituality, the “scriptures” if you will. This ceremony informs and organizes […]
Over the last few decades, universities have become the home of contemporary poetry in the United States, where nearly every major poet is also an academic. Poets, like other professors, teach classes, publish […]
The Gospel of Mark repeatedly echoes the Hebrew Bible: from the extensive thematic and verbal parallels between Jesus’ calming of the sea and the story of Jonah to the quotation of a single […]
[…] concrete ceilings so low one had to stoop or crawl just to do one’s job. In short order, a metaphorical abbatoir occurred with the excommunication of six prominent Mormon intellectuals. For three more years […]
[…] that has too long been forgotten, discarded, and de-legitimized. Anderson’s book contains six chapters plus an introduction. The chapters are ordered chronologically as follows: “A Queer Beginning (1847–1969),” “Gay Liberation in Utah (1969–83),” “Activism […]
[…] catalyst of the development in her life. It’s no wonder that so many people seeing these comics online thought Enid was real, as Hales says in his preface. Hales skillfully portrays the heart of […]
[…] remember, at the end of this particular sequence involving Enid’s mother, when Hales posted these final panels online there was genuine mourning and shock expressed on social media. I was affected. This is the […]
We all know the Sunday School answers, but life rarely, if ever, plays out like a seminary video. So what do love, sex, and marriage look like in the lived experience of Mormon women? […]
[…] her alter ego “Giselle” as the ideal Mormon woman, mother, and wife she had to dismantle in order to accept herself. “I’ve never known a woman who prayed as much” she describes the ideal. […]