The Political Is Personal
March 17, 2018[…] row, first-hand experience of being in California this time, but Prop 8 was nearly inescapable in the news media, at church, and on social networking sites. Rather than leaving in protest as I had […]
[…] row, first-hand experience of being in California this time, but Prop 8 was nearly inescapable in the news media, at church, and on social networking sites. Rather than leaving in protest as I had […]
[…] in seeking happiness and contentment in life. Being married to a cross-dresser has drawn me into a world that is not only sexually ambiguous but also religiously ambiguous. Seeing Jake’s struggle to find unconditional […]
[…] as we are, and I will progress in my career and she will stay at home, her world melding into a long blur of Sesame Street mornings, peanut butter and jelly afternoons, and Oprah […]
[…] he insists we travel a promised land he long ago deserted. (See his “Light in Darkness: Embracing the Opportunity of Climate Change,” Dialogue 43, no. 3 [Fall 2010]: 100–127). He does not explain why, […]
Levi Savage Peterson, the beloved and controversial Mormon writer, throws a quietly skeptical glance over his menu in a posh Palo Alto nouveaux-Middle Eastern restaurant on a recent evening in early June 2011. My […]
[…] through more local organizations for Mormon studies like EMSA and more activity by local scholars around the world. However, Mormon studies research requires a visit to the LDS church archives because of the centralization […]
Brock Cheney’s history of Mormon food, Plain but Wholesome: Foodways of the Mormon Pioneers does much to fill a surprising lacuna in Mormon history. Although a number of books on food and religion exist, […]
[…] Beatrice said of Dante might well apply to Susan Elizabeth Howe’s latest collection of poetry, titled Salt. The observation was fictional, served up in an obscure but brilliant nineteenth-century book, Classical Conversations by Walter […]
[…] the rightful owner of the pamphlets: God had given them to her for the benefit of the world. A devout Mormon, Andelin spent years trying to secure the endorsement of the LDS Church. Despite […]
Zarahemla, the eternal city, is dust; as is everything that was. In vision I see the world that comes: polio, lupus, Holocaust. Disaster and diaspora are at once preamble and epitaph to the good […]