I got the book and felt both the chill of skepticism and a flash of jubilation—mostly at the derring-do of my old friend University of Illinois Press. I was eager to pat the acquisition […]
[…] when I drove out and found a haven in the late year weather. The rest of the world boozed and fought and laughed but mostly slept, and the year kept its schedule dreaming, and […]
[…] 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 […]