[…] in Mormonism— “a feminism that is about ‘cooperation and compassion.’” Fresh Courage Take is a positive motto for a challenging task, one modelled by Mother Eve—“to act for ourselves instead of being acted upon.” […]
[…] 2005 commencement speech, the late novelist David Foster Wallace provided an unexpectedly frank description of American adulthood for the recent graduates of Kenyon College. Listing painfully familiar annoyances associated with what he calls the […]
[…] the definition of Mormon womanhood, it seems to me that the boundaries of that community have shifted over the past almost two hundred years from being initially proscribed by the institution, in the early […]
[…] shinobi brethren would soon arrive with the cornerstone. He resisted the urge to help Satoshi re-check speaker 6—one of a stack of eight the band always traveled with. The receptacle was not the issue. […]
[…] be and become. The notion of “a conversation as old as Mormonism itself” is daunting and possibly counter-productive, backward-looking, exclusive. However, Harrell moves toward cutting it down to size when he provides an overview, […]
It’s a hard truth: you have to be damn smart to be a writer of good fiction. If you’re dumb, forget it. You have to hear words in your head—and who doesn’t? But you […]
In response to the question “How can a spirit be a member of the godhead?” Joseph Fielding Smith wrote, “we should have no time to enter into speculation in relation to the Holy Ghost,” […]
[…] light, a composite memory crafted from the movies, pictures, and representations of the scene I had seen over my life. I kicked myself: how immured was I to that story that it was the […]
Dialogue 49.3 (Fall 2016): 75–88 Probably the most destabilizing piece of historical information most Mormons come across is Joseph Smith’s polygamy.
[…] from going to Primary, I am perpetually terrified of giving sacrament meeting talks. I even asked Penny to give this talk for me, but she said no because this pulpit is too big for her.