[…] one, even if it has no broken lines? For most of us who read and love poetry, the answer is, “I just know.” There is the buzz of new vision from a surprising metaphor […]
[…] wrote about his séance attendance and the spirits that visited him to offer insight into the spiritual world. This included the spirit of Joseph Smith, who Lyman wrote highly of in both his mortal […]
[…] contradictions inevitably arise. Eventually, these expectations and contradictions drive Freeman from the faith and into the wider world. When the author and her husband relocate to St. Paul, Minnesota to seek medical treatment for […]
[…] from the building’s feeble Wi-Fi as Indians were filing in for sacrament meeting. When I saw the news, a spasm of grief went through my whole body. It was hard to take the sacrament. […]
[…] Incorporation and Legal Advancements (1992–2006),” “Marriage Equality, Proposition 8, and Its Aftermath (2007–2010),” and “A Queer New World (2011–2016).” Each of the chapters begins with a one-page narrative history of the period of time […]
[…] and objects outside ourselves. Perhaps Jack Harrell, as a previous outsider to not just the Mormon literary world but the Mormon world altogether, is especially well-suited to put himself forward to articulate what Mormon […]
[…] have to do that with paragraphs and chapters in the service of a whole whose shape knocks readers right out of unconsciousness, makes them alive, blasts their eyes open so they see the world new.
[…] life from the conception of the spiritual being by Heavenly Parents to the hope of creating a world for oneself in the eternities. This section uses immense illustration and humor to depict significant theological […]
In his essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” T. S. Eliot writes that tradition “cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour.”This has always underscored for me […]
[…] be a wife. But I was eight years old, and in my mind, if all I really wanted from the future was a husband, then that must mean that I wanted to be a wife.”