[…] Did you misapprehend the gaps in the family gathered before you, the absent grandchildren scattered around the world—New Zealand, Japan, Virginia—who could not possibly be in attendance? As I finished reading the obituary and […]
[…] meld my pioneer ancestries together. That day in Zandamela was more than a visit or a photo-taking opportunity. It was my first Pioneer Day. [1] “Country information: Swaziland,” Church News, updated Feb. 1, 2010, https://www.thechurchnews.com/archive/2010-02-01/country-information-swaziland-34988
When Eve partook of the fruit, she envisioned a different kind of world than she knew in Eden—a world where she could learn, progress, and create. Unlike most Christians, Latter-day Saints believe that Eve […]
[…] needed to reach them. Taylor is an exemplary scholar with a deep understanding of the modern publishing world.” “I am thrilled to join Dialogue and to be a part of the legacy of this […]
[…] draws from a mythical, shared consciousness and familiar in how these stories play out in a modern world where fantastical events unfold around and in the troubled psyches of Habermeyer’s unique cast of characters. […]
[…] Carnegie Tech. Dark brick house and heavy gray sky. Warm, prickly air; a carpet of clover in the grass. A thick cement porch I loved, anchored with square pillars of the same black brick. […]
[…] coarse / against my cheeks.” Such detail reminds us of a time in our lives before the world crashed in, a moment suspended when innocence meets reality, a theme revisited throughout subsequent poems. This […]
[…] Dialogue and Quincy D. Newell, an associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College and co-editor of the Mormon Studies Review. Dr. Newell recently finished her new book, Your Sister in the Gospel: The […]
In 2015, the Catholic Church celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its landmark proclamation Nostra aetate. As one of the key documents of the Second Vatican Council, Nostra aetate laid the foundation for contemporary Catholic […]
[…] imaginative and provocative book of criticism, Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology (2012), I stated: “At times, Miller seems as much poet as theologian. Essay after essay does what Robert Frost says poetry […]