[…] of personal and spiritual truth on the misery that made her a mother determined to make the world lighter for others. Keira Shae. How the Light Gets In: A Memoir. Salt Lake City: BCC […]
My assigned topic is “Ministering with the Power and Authority of God.” It’s a daunting topic, and one that requires a preliminary confession: when I hear the word “minister,” my most immediate and strongest […]
Images, of now, in time, examined by five senses change when science lifts the edges of perception and we see what used to be legend laid bare by numbers and their manipulation.
[…] own history. As important as the study of that history is, less than one percent of the world’s population has any interest in it. If Mormonism wishes to become more than a local sect, […]
[…] of artistic call to arms for Zion to rise up and not only match but exceed the world in the realms of aesthetic achievement. It was not the first time a General Authority had […]
Tom Christofferson’s That We May Be One exploded onto the LDS book market with a series of news releases, interviews, and appearances.It represents a gigantic leap in the Deseret Book LDS conversation on LGBTQ+ […]
[…] my sensory experience. This time I sought a detailed close-up for mala beads, a tactile sense of the silk handkerchief around a deck of tarot cards, an image of a gilded ketubah, and a […]
[…] an ethnomusicologist, and I’m a mom to four-year-old Penny, who is currently my job. We’ve been in the ward about ten years. I was originally asked to speak last week, but I was in […]
[…] the tension between the requirements of Mormon faith and competing identities and demands, whether of the academic world, middle school social hierarchy, or a post-apocalyptic “confederation” where Mormon belief must be explicitly renounced. All […]
[…] may experience some erosion of his religious foundations as he encounters “the theories and philosophies of the world,” and the author’s fellow scientists, at least the atheists and agnostics among them, for whom he […]