[…] Newell reveals what life was like for someone like James, whom she refers to as Jane throughout the text, showing the intersections of her racial, gendered, and religious identities and the various systems of […]
As a kid growing up near the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, I spent most of my time plotting my escape—from childhood itself, but more specifically from a Mormon childhood in Utah. […]
[…] Indianapolis, Indiana. He received his BFA from Brigham Young University and has exhibited nationally and internationally, including the CUAC 2017 Utah Ties Exhibition and 2017 Art Dusseldorf Bloom Award Exhibition. His work has been […]
I never wanted a son. I feel the heavy ugliness of those words like rough stones in my hands, taste them like shame on my tongue. Children have always been alien creatures to me, […]
As a woman myself, I often wonder about the daughters of Ishmael. What did they think when their father suddenly decided to leave Jerusalem and follow Lehi and his sons into the wilderness? How […]
[…] at those who appear naive. We are too busy and too distracted to notice details around us. News travels quickly. There is a bottomless depth of information available at our fingertips, and we can […]
[…] vision of possibility” that allows us to more fully recognize the relevance of our faith to the world, and the personal and cultural weaknesses we bring with us in our understanding of the gospel […]
[…] 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 […]