[…] a really generative way of thinking about Christ—just as language aids me in mediating between myself the world, Christ is a point of mediation, a fulcrum for a relationship between my local, sinful experience […]
“Coming Out” Again, Joanna Brooks Building the Kingdom with Total Honesty, Boyd Kirkland Dilemmas Everywhere, Armand L. Mauss A Warm, Grateful Feeling, Lane J. Wolfley True Intolerance, Thomas G. Alexander
[…] them. (Alma 33:20) Now flash forward to March 29, 2020. President Nelson asked the Church, and the world, to join in a worldwide fast for relief from the COVID-19 pandemic. He included, “As a […]
[…] Hicks’ autobiography leads to an unnuanced assessment. Brooks similarly relies on two twenty-first century newspaper accounts (Deseret News and New York Times) for the lynching of miner Robert Marshall in Price, Utah, in 1925. […]
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spoke last Sunday on Daughters of My Kingdom. In this cross-posting with By Common Consent, you can get the notes of what she said.
[…] a bright sunny day, and, just as on other beautiful days, I am on top of the world, where the wide expanse of the earth is all mine. My arms spread out, eyes closed, […]
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 […]
In the fall of 1973, I enrolled as a sophomore at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. On a whim, I registered for a course titled ENG 240 WRITING POETRY, INSTRUCTOR: E. BELL. I […]
Dialogue 50.2 (Summer 2017): 209–213 “I was excommunicated from the Church in 1986. I am a gay man in a twenty-five-year-long relationship with my husband Göran Gustav-Wrathall. We were legally married in July 2008. […]
[…] hid behind a glint of green flashing fire, but I did not care because when I slid the glasses on in the doctor’s office, the blurry rack of “For Sale” frames suddenly snapped into […]