Letters to the Editor
August 4, 2024[…] if she doesn’t have an overweight husband. This does not mean that every other woman in the world should have to do the same thing. One may live a life of duty and sacrifice, […]
[…] if she doesn’t have an overweight husband. This does not mean that every other woman in the world should have to do the same thing. One may live a life of duty and sacrifice, […]
Dear Sirs: I was very pleased to read the David L. Wright material in the Summer issue. Jim Miller’s “Introduction” and “Dave Elegy” form an outstanding preface to “The Con science of the Village.” […]
[…] Black, but my ancestors are. Had I been of age before 1978, I would not have received the priesthood. I think about this as I consider the history of racism in Brazil. The priesthood […]
Early this week, scholar John Turner presented an opinion piece in the New York Times on “Why Race Is Still a Problem for Mormons.”
[…] Nelson—and is aptly named, for we are indeed amid an unparalleled cultural flourishing in the LDS-Mormon art world. Occasioned by the two hundredth anniversary of Joseph Smith’s First Vision, a key religious event in […]
[…] because I’m attracted to men. I can’t live with myself for hurting her. God has abandoned me for going against the teachings of the Bible. I don’t deserve to be alive.” His despair was overwhelming.
[…] labored, and I started to sweat. The last six weeks had created a perfect storm in my world. At the end of June, the US Supreme Court unexpectedly legalized gay marriage, sending the global […]
Of the legacy of Joseph Smith, historian Bernard DeVoto wrote in 1936, “The vision perishes; it is the vertigo that endures.” Reading the novel The Prophet’s Wife by Libbie Grant is to feel that […]
[…] the shadow of the “visionary” destruction of Jerusalem and the people on the other side of the world from this destruction, “the new (and very old) covenant,” and the role of Jesus as the […]
[…] she was hooked to him, defined by him, her daughters’ destiny written at the beginning of the world. The woman’s reason for being centers on the man” (48). She recounts heartbreaking tale after heartbreaking […]