Had Brigham Young adhered to Sam Brannan’s advice and settled in California, San Francisco might have become the Mecca of Mormonism. Young stopped in the Great Salt Lake Valley and San Francisco had to […]
Andrew Karl Larson’s Erastus Snow: The Life of a Missionary and Pioneer for the Early Mormon Church is a biography written, as the author candidly points out in his preface, “at the behest of […]
No, Father, I never got over that first rush of anger like wings folding round me as I discovered the world
[…] which I bounce my head and words; which catches every other prayer spattered with tears, and returns the rest rebounding on my ears. A child bored in church, I’d climb on to […]
[…] Only Fall 2019 Feature Kirstie Stanger Weyland was born in Ethiopia then later adopted and raised in the Provo-Orem Utah area. She served a Spanish-speaking mission to Panama from 2015-2016. Kirstie completed her Bachelor […]
Dialogue 53.1 (Spring 2020): 99–107 Elder Oaks clarified that priesthood is the authority and power of God. By extension, that must also be the authority and power of our Heavenly Mother. I decided to […]
[…] chronologically, beginning with Terry’s childhood growing up in North Ogden, Utah, sheltered from the rest of the world and that “terrible decade that starred so regularly on TV newscasts,” the 1960s (6). Terry was […]
[…] a sign letting me know what is happening to me,” Alice Walker’s main character Celie writes at the start of The Color Purple.Similarly, Georgia, a real-life Black Mormon woman in current-day Baltimore stands up […]
Twenty-three years after Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power and twenty years after Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power, the long-awaited third volume of D. Michael Quinn’s Mormon Hierarchy series extends his study of Latter-day Saint General […]
[…] together, and Hermana Plunge learns, gaffes, loves, and leads, growing and becoming a new person in the world, guiding her to a love she’d never imagined, one the reader never would guess. As much […]