Come to the incredible salon/fundraiser sponsored by the Mormon Women Project this Saturday, November 5th at 6:00pm, at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in SLC, with the theme: “Crafting A Deliberate Life: Making Choices […]
[…] mind if I sang a song for you?” I smile and nod my head. I’m just getting over a fentanyl headache and I haven’t heard anyone really sing in months. I close my eyes […]
[…] of institutionalized Mormonism, and as an activist and scholar of faith navigating what is and has been for most of my life a complicated environment where racial/ethnic issues are ever present but rarely discussed […]
in counter-sense the eye hunts out more than what it holds
[…] I review here, The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry and The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner, counter this trend, presenting characters who wrestle with issues of faith and belief as they navigate the […]
[…] be parents. Many men like me feel a deep desire to be hands-on fathers who claim responsibility for many of the tasks that previous generations assigned principally to mothers; to not perform these duties […]
[…] both awe and some confusion among rank-and-file Latter-day Saints while causing at least a degree of discomfort for Church leaders and spokespeople who are trying to make Mormonism more palatable for our mainstream Christian […]
The text the bishop suggested for my remarks today comes from Doctrine and Covenants 45:66: “And it shall be called the New Jerusalem, a land of peace, a city of refuge, a place of […]
[…] know as we went along. But many were cautious. How would we pay for it? Would anyone buy it? Did we have anything to say? Who would write for us? We wanted to keep […]
[…] denigrate or detract from the enormous significance of the histories by Edward Tullidge and Hubert Howe Bancroft,[ 6] it may be fairly said that “objective,” “scholarly,” and “systematic” treatises on the Mormons and their […]