The bus to Sao Bento up through a complex development of valleys and mountainous jungle. The canopy of trees changes periodically during the slow ascent from the typical street-lining palms to heavier blocked […]
[…] the mean things the other boys were doing. The Ju family thought highly of my brothers. When World War II began, my parents told Ju Gin there was farm land available in Southern California […]
[…] Finding Christianity of the early nineteenth century exhausted of its deep spiritual meaning, he looked at the world (the garment of God) and produced visionary language to revitalize Victorian spirituality. Describing his main character, […]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a strong authority structure. Power seemingly originates at the center of the Church, with the prophet and apostles, and radiates outward from there. This […]
[…] He leaves the storm raging in my heart? I see, as I sit on this log, a world of order, yet of chaos. The chaos brings balance to the order, but there is no […]
[…] emerging from its cocoon in the American West and renegotiating its relationship with the rest of the world. The writers of the midcentury Mormon diaspora were an important (if often unacknowledged) part of that […]
Dialogue 47.4 (Winter 2014): 167–180 Brooks talks about the period from 1970s Mormon feminism in Boston to the present and imagines what needs to be part of the future. She identifies five areas for […]
[…] it’s morning in the American Century, when in fact the heating of the atmosphere has made the world system and the birth climate of everyone in this room, regardless of your age, obsolete. When […]
Dialogue 52.1 (Spring 2019): 17–32 But the experience of women as women, their wilderness crescent, is unshared with men—utterly other—and therefore to men, unnatural.
[…] August 20, 2017 to be exact, my friend Steve and his wife Jill picked me up along with my adult son Jaron to chase the total eclipse tacking across the United States the next day.