Letters to the Editor
July 30, 2024Dear 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.” […]
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Considerations for an Apology for Afrodescendants in Brazil
March 29, 2024[…] 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 […]
On Racism and the Mormon Church and Response
August 22, 2012Early this week, scholar John Turner presented an opinion piece in the New York Times on “Why Race Is Still a Problem for Mormons.”
The Great Awakening of the LDS-Mormon Art Scene | Chase Westfall, Great Awakening: Vision and Synthesis in Latter-day Saint Contemporary Art
August 29, 2023[…] 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 […]
Healing Together: The Lonely Intersection of Faith and Sexuality
June 21, 2023[…] 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.
Judging Israel
March 29, 2023[…] 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 […]
The Enduring Vertigo of the Elect Lady Libbie Grant, The Prophet’s Wife
February 20, 2023Of 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 […]
Book of Mormon Theology— Anticipating the Future of a Discipline Neal A. Maxwell Institute, The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions
November 11, 2022[…] 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 […]
Connecting the Dots Caitlin Myer, A Memoir of Loving and Then Leaving the Patriarchy
December 10, 2021[…] 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 […]
Ceci n’est pas une Mormon Studies Book Peter Coviello, Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
December 10, 2021[…] insists on calling us “the Mormons,” which for me conjures up something from the 1964–1965 New York World’s Fair—and more to the substance of the point insists that this book IS NOT A WORK […]