[…] from Sand and Sky, spans immense time. The book carries the reader from Barber’s childhood in post– World War II Nevada through adolescence, multiple marriages, children, relocation, ecological change, alterations in faith, unfathomable loss, […]
[…] book that should be in the hands of everyone who thinks deeply about Mormonism’s place in the world. Writing for the Cambridge Element series on religion and violence, Patrick Mason has produced a crisp, […]
[…] in the Church. To add insult to injury, in the endowment’s depiction of the creation of the world and humankind, Heavenly Mother was nowhere to be found. Creation was an all-male endeavor. I sobbed […]
Women’s and gender studies emerged out of the women’s and sexual liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, movements the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vigorously opposed. The so-called New Mormon History […]
[…] lived celestial siblings who would one day emigrate to New Zion. He commanded them to prepare the world for their siblings’ arrival (3). The first ship to arrive, in the year 2806, brought green-skinned […]
[…] Intelligence”), but we need a public window by which the defenders of the faith can show the world where we really stand. Surely the Negro-discrimination charge ought to be discussed on a deeper level […]
[…] Romney appears to believe the American “destiny” is to be the policeman and savior of all the world (though in admirable moderation), notwithstanding the abundant prophetic warnings regarding the coming bankruptcy of the nation […]
[…] of Luanda where he lives with his wife and children, amid the dynamism of one of the world’s most expensive cities, between the sounds of Portuguese and tribal Bantu languages, in the art and […]
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is one of the most decorated historians of early America. Her book A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812 (New York: Knopf, 1990) earned her […]
Polygamy is, for many Americans, Mormonism’s defining feature. Even now, over a century after the main church abandoned the practice, images of Latter-day Saint polygamy persist in the popular and scholarly imagination. Most accounts […]