[…] good for. She wants to do more: be an entrepreneur, have a social life, engage in the world around her. However, even as many might use Gay’s narrative to attest that most people leave […]
“So how does the priesthood ban make you feel?” At the time I didn’t have the right tools to answer my freshman year religious studies professor at Brigham Young University, so I muttered something […]
When I was about twelve, yet another retelling of the Cinderella story was released into theatres in a magic-free but nonetheless magical version called Ever After. One of my favorite scenes in this film […]
[…] today Romania, my father’s ancestors heard of a man named Joseph Smith and his vision of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. They left Europe and traveled with other devout Saints to […]
[…] strict definition of “man” or “woman” does not simply exclude trans folks but also any body not fulfilling its biological utility. After all, biological potential and utility is the basis of a biological sex assignment
[…] early 1830s in response to those revelations. “Each church believes it has the correct map of the world,” Patterson observes (4). The Community of Christ owns the most land, including the site of its […]
[…] sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. I want to focus on one word in particular: advocate. The original Greek word in this […]
[…] Bagley is a historian who has written and edited more than a dozen books on Mormon ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) history and the American West. His best known work […]
[…] the Latter-day Saint church aims to be—that stone cut out of the mountain that fills the whole world, not just the Intermountain American West. More importantly, Parshall’s contextual essays also show real people interacting […]
[…] graduate work in intellectual history (Cornell) and comparative literature (UNC Chapel Hill). In 2019 he retired from the Jabez A. Bostwick Chair at the University of Richmond to be Neal A. Maxwell Senior Research […]