[…] LDS neighborhood, grief-stricken family members, detectives, ward members, and suspects all struggle to find their footing in the agonizing aftermath. In The Contortionists, the new novel from Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner, alliances shift, secrets […]
[…] DC in summer of 2006. This is from my journal: Today I went to church and took the sacrament, I believe, for the first time in ten years. It was a beautiful, meaningful service. […]
[…] protocols. One water tray with socially-distanced cups of bread. One bread tray for discarded water cups. The world is a very mixed-up place. I feel very mixed up at church too. I come, I […]
[…] Hicks’ autobiography leads to an unnuanced assessment. Brooks similarly relies on two twenty-first century newspaper accounts (Deseret News and New York Times) for the lynching of miner Robert Marshall in Price, Utah, in 1925. […]
At the end of the nineteenth century, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, having semi-retired from her fight for women’s suffrage, decided to create what would come to be known as The Woman’s Bible. This biblical production […]
[…] reminds her of ambitions long buried. Her skill at hat-making had brought zest and beauty into her world, and her decision to embark to America was prompted at least in part by a desire […]
[…] where I got on as a Clerk-Typist GS4. They were a bit apologetic about my MA in English, but I assured them I was happy with my appointment in that old ship, green then, […]
2020: Steven C. Harper, “First Vision: Memory and Mormon Origins.” Dialogue Lectures Podcast #48. Harper discusses how the principles of memory may have influenced Joseph Smith as he recorded his multiple First Vision accounts. Harper […]
Last night she lay in bed and read the men’s words while blood flowed and spread like a petal, pooled and ached, red as stymied truth. Every woman from twelve to sixty could […]
Dialogue 52.3 (Fall 2019): 203–208 The only way that you can both help the poor and needy and preach the gospel is if you let go of racism “and help others to do the same.”