[…] calls out tendencies to insularism and violence in Mormon culture and points toward hope. In a post-pandemic world where gun-toting survivors have mostly wiped out their neighbors, a nameless narrator survives by following a […]
[…] who didn’t inherit the fortitude of my pioneer forbears, nor do I possess much optimism about our world or the future. But reading of Ellen’s calm, rational, and patient handling of her son’s terrible […]
[…] voices and attempting to weave a fuller tapestry of their varied experiences. The idea of a “two- world” experience is one that emerges in many different American Indian contexts and scenarios as a result […]
[…] overlapping stages of life. Reading them as a tryptic feels like visiting a collaborative art exhibit by the likes of Judy Chicago, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Joan Mitchell—beauty everywhere and something for everyone. Reading Darlene […]
[…] and makes a compelling case concerning the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ racial policies since World War II. While the parameters of the story are well known, the twentieth- and twenty-first-century Church’s […]
[…] to an accident when the angel of God who was assigned to evenly distribute fools around the world tripped in Poland, leaving the town “fool-flooded and wit-less” (xii). Each of the stories offers the […]
I was fasting that day when we went out into the farmlands around Nagasaki, looking up referrals. After hours of walking, we found ourselves on a ridge looking down on rice fields and […]
[…] about all that’s been accomplished in the nearly 60 years since her dad founded Dialogue — the world’s foremost independent Mormon studies journal. But we also realize I’m the only person discouraging us from […]
[…] Edgar Baker (Thomas G. Evans and Christopher Blythe), the House of Aaron (Casey Paul Griffiths), the ongoing search for Earl John Brewer’s caves (Christopher C. Smith), and Matthew Philip Gill’s new movement (Matthew Bowman). […]
[…] goal being to “bring the savagery of the Mormon Church to ‘the eyes of the whole civilized world’” in order to pressure Congress to pass legislation that would punish the Church (49). Their narrative […]