Faith and Power of an Unbroken Woman
April 28, 2020[…] 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, […]
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What Would Jesus Do in Cyberspace? A Comparison of Online Authority Appeals on Two LDS Websites Targeting Believers and Non-Members
February 13, 2019Religious 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 Memoriam: Elouise Bell (1935–2017)
October 26, 2018In 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 […]
Why I Stay
October 26, 2018Dialogue 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. […]
Eyes to See
October 26, 2018[…] 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 […]
Exploring the Unfamiliar Realm of Religion in Young Adult Literature | Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa; Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King
October 26, 2018[…] abuse, and sexuality, all in the name of allowing teen readers a chance to explore the “real” world. One element of teens’ lives, however, that has often been overlooked in the literature is religion […]
A View from the Inside: How Critical Ethnography Changed My Mind About Polygamy
October 25, 2018My first entry into the world of so-called Mormon polygamy began on June 17, 2010 when I attended the second annual conference of Safety Net, an organization that seeks “to assist people associated with […]
Walking the Narrow Path | Patrick Q. Mason, Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt
October 24, 2018[…] Planted one evening, I turned to my wife, Sara, and said, “I think that we are in the book.” I was reading an anecdote that Patrick shares near the end about some non-LDS Christian […]
Into a Foreign Land: A Catholic Among Mormons
October 24, 2018[…] Congregational church and my husband in an Episcopal church, after reading Thomas Merton’s Seven Story Mountain in the early 1970s, we converted to Catholicism. There we found a spiritual home. I now help out […]
The Possibility of Dialogue: A Personal View
May 4, 2018[…] dogmatism (especially religious dogmatism) grow in the land. And here is Paul, whobrought Christianity to the Western world, speaking the same words. “Prove all things”: consider all things; look at all possibilities; examine your […]