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 […]
[…] 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 […]