For me, as a Native American member of the Church, I approach the hero worship of Columbus perhaps more critically and apprehensively than the average member would. I was taught that he was a […]
The Indigenous peoples of the Americas have held their own sets of values and beliefs since time immemorial. Indigenous peoples have rejected the Doctrine of Discovery because it suggests that the United States […]
“How did your mama die?” I ask Grandma Essie, my dad’s mother. She looks down at the floor. “She died of quinsy.” Something doesn’t feel quite right to eight-year-old me.
[…] cats. Hard to swallow the bread of patience, the salt of courage. Bye-bye (she dismisses us in English), tell Maman you’ve met the viceroy of the absent. And now it’s me who’s gray and […]
I think that the Curriculum Committee of the church missed a tremendous opportunity with the production of the manual for study this year. Most of us know someone who has struggled with mental illness.
by Adam McLain Netflix recently released a three-part documentary about the document forgery that occurred in Salt Lake City in the 1980s. Titled Murder Among the Mormons, the documentary shows what happened when documents […]
Continuing the Dialogue Topics Podcast, Dialogue Editor Taylor Petrey walks us through the history of feminism in the pages of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. From the Pink Issue in Summer 1971 to […]
[…] Welcome to New Zion Sierra Wilson and Emily Shay. Standout Saints: Church History Heroes from Around the World. Susan L. Gong and Masahiro Tateishi. Ming’s Christmas Wishes Anthony R. Sweat. Repicturing the Restoration: New […]
[…] a few minor Mormon-produced exceptions) including Sister Wives (reality TV), Big Love, The Book of Mormon (musical), interviews with the Osmonds, various news and other media featuring and about Elizabeth Smart, MLMs, various podcast episodes hosted by John Dehlin, […]
[…] even the huckleberries or the Victrola. Not even for the hundreds of stereoscopic images of a brief world loved and lost. It was my love for Leon Wheelwright” (154). These encounters draw attention to […]