The title of this book may elicit wry smiles. Even casual consideration suggests that heterosexuality is doing just fine on its own, without the need for outside encouragement. The authors’ purpose, of course, […]
[…] character—and the result is a text that is useful for understanding both McAuslan as well as the world he lived in. While ostensibly about a single in dividual, the book is really a group […]
[…] one can serve two masters. Immediately after I hung up, I called Steve to tell him the news. Steve said, “This is the easiest decision you’ll ever have to make in your life.” I […]
[…] Milton and Chaucer, I am keenly aware of how much distance there is between Middle, Elizabethan and Jacobean English and the English we speak today. Since the English used by King James’s translators was archaic even […]
Time held me green and dying, though I sang, And spun me off the whinnied fields and out of praise In his big harvest hands ’til horse and hen and place Were only memory, […]
[…] Morris Brown offers a rich and compelling view of early Mormonism’s sacramental and theological emergence up to the death of Joseph Smith Jr. This book makes many outstanding contributions to discussions of this foundational […]
[…] it. As members of a religion, for example, we absorb certain types of knowledge and see the world through a particular lens. It is this same position that makes it difficult for us to […]
[…] Utah, an LDS Navajo neighbor asked if my ten-year-old daughter would like to play a role in the Voices of San Juan Pageant, a local, outdoor LDS production then staged every year. I’d never […]
Russell Arben Fox: Okay, Megan, I’ll start. Miller prefaces his book with the statement that “Here, my work is personal. I mean only to address the real beauty and real costs of trying to […]
[…] uses this story, and others like it, to demonstrate that today’s young women have never known a world in which gender dictated a person’s life script—except in their church. This disconnection between their experience […]