My goal here is twofold. First, I want to demonstrate that current notions about dissent in the Church—whether it is good or bad—are inadequate because the language available for talking about dissent is insufficient. […]
Lately the Bible has been getting a bum rap. Christopher Hitchens calls it “a nightmare”and blames it for much of humanity’s suffering—everything from sexism to genocide. At the same time, literalist approaches to the […]
[…] similar concentration of LDS population and power. And yet Utah does not lead the nation or the world in any of those dimensions of life that could be counted as essential steps toward a […]
My parents, in a nice haphazard sort of a way exposed me early on to the basic classical literature and ideas that they thought I needed to know. The raciness of some of the […]
I am a relative newcomer to the academic side of Mormon history. I never traded photocopies of photocopies of historical documents. I only know of the most scandalous shenanigans in the field through my […]
Dwarfed by other forms of life, the leaves fall into this world without cadence that changes colors each time it kisses something goodbye.
[…] first wife, he instructed her (rather matter-of-factly) to “send my love to my friends in the spirit world” (128). Much detail is given in the letters regarding the heavy press of church business that […]
“I’m sad. It feels like the whole world is inside me,” says my five-year-old grandson, naming,
The border I knew best as a child was halfway over the swinging bridge in Provo Canyon, between the shade of Wildwood and the Sundance road, just opposite Dr. Weight’s place. Beneath it, […]
[…] the plate. The ball bounces off and rolls across the stained carpeting. “The platter represents the world. And the ping-pong ball is you,” chimes our enthusiastic leader. “So what did the jumping symbolize?” […]