I Nora bears the tray of hors d’oeuvres she spent three hours this afternoon preparing. Mushroom caps stuffed with chopped and sauteed artichoke hearts, onion, garlic, bread crumbs, and three cheeses. She approaches the […]
[…] who were doing everything in their power to fulfill their own prophecies about the end of the world. Religious fundamentalism is fascinating to me on many levels. The majority of religious people are fairly […]
My mother sent me the link to this blog site and she has posted here as well. Linda Hoffman Kimball and Chris Kimball met in the Longfellow Park building that fell yesterday. I am […]
[…] 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, […]