Excerpts from Before Us Like a Land of Dreams
May 13, 2019[…] discipline will escalate into what the law in my time would frankly call abuse. I know he’ll buy a dairy farm in Alpine to try working his oldest son into compliance. I know he’ll […]
[…] discipline will escalate into what the law in my time would frankly call abuse. I know he’ll buy a dairy farm in Alpine to try working his oldest son into compliance. I know he’ll […]
[…] prophets who led Israel together. The bishop looked doubtful and worried, so I read Exodus 15:20–21, Micah 6:4, and Numbers 12:1–8, which consoled him. The young women loved it, they were saying, “Miriam was […]
[…] this era when so many forces seek to divide us, we are dedicated to being a force for unity. Earlier this fall, President Russell M. Nelson called for members to use the Church’s full […]
Religious practice is shifting from churches to the internet in what some critics call a “post-denominational era.”One early commentator predicted that “the web would reduce us to a virtual community of believers practicing a […]
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 […]
[…] in his chair and asked what he could do for him. Brother Fournier turned the manila envelope over and removed its contents to his lap. The sheaf looked like the old family group sheets […]
[…] 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
[…] 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 […]