[…] o’clock strolls around our sleeping neighborhood became commonplacefor us. Many days she could barely move because of the pain, anddoctors were at a loss to explain the origins or offer options for al-leviation. It […]
[…] up for this type of thing. I need to work myself into a frenzy of anxiety in order to reach the numb calm that seems to intimidate these fools. My fellow Chiefs. My Confederates. […]
Hong Kong, Dan Rather declared as he began his television coverage of the 1997 “handover” from British to Chinese sovereignty, “is Asia for beginners.” That is what it was for me, although it has […]
Neylan McBaine’s book Women at Church includes the following interview excerpt: On one Sunday in my ward, the final assigned speaker was a woman. She seemed flustered to be in the last slot, was […]
Every April in the Saturday afternoon session of its semi-annual General Conference, the managing director of the Auditing Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) reads his department’s report […]
[…] feel less certain, though my continual return to her faith is a necessary part of me, and the humility at the core of Christianity argues for a return. The recent fire, destruction, and transformation […]
On the day after Christmas in 1915, Joseph F. Smith (JFS), then president of the LDS Church and less than three years away from his own death, spoke to a group of people in […]
The Book of Mormon opens with a provocative conundrum: how can the sensory world of revelation most effectively be rendered in language? After introducing himself and his process of making scripture, the prophet-narrator Nephi recounts […]
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[…] J. Seth Anderson’s LGBT Salt Lake (Summer 2017 issue, pp. 189–91), I neglected to identify one of the most important pioneers of Mormon LGBT studies at work today. Duane E. Jennings, past president of […]