[…] of Why I Stay: The Challenges of Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons, and A New Witness to the World: Reading and Re-reading the Book of Mormon, forthcoming from BCC Press. Rees has served three full-time […]
For our third Book Report, Book Review Editor Andrew Hall discusses the beautiful reviews found in the new Spring 2020 Issue, guest edited by Exponent II. He talks to Margaret Hemming Olsen who helps […]
[…] for this issue of the journal, with its focus on the ecologies that nourish our lives, our world, and our faith. I asked Jay Griffith, whose trail running and writing place him in a […]
The sky has fasted in the desert forty thousand years. Now it’s caught a glimpse of barley fields and orange groves: the table the world sets for winter.
Surviving my mother by twelve years, my father became my perfect friend, having evolved from the anxious and overly-protective father I’d known as a teenager.
[…] Rachel is a natural detective. Will she agree to ride obediently behind J.D. on her hated, back- breaking sidesaddle (“a device for torturing females” [118]) and stay mostly silent while he investigates the murder, […]
Every Tuesday morning, sky dark, I rise to the temple. Today, by the time we reach the Garden, the actors need help with their lines.
The beach is my temple, The water the voice of God shooshing toward me, inviting, calm, The stones the decorations that light the fire of the pillar, The sand the handshake that draws […]
[…] After distinguishing himself at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and serving in the army during World War II in North Africa and Italy, Arrington accepted a professorship at Utah State University. In […]
[…] it acknowledges earlier on that at least some of those contracts would be honored by the spiritual world–even if they ‘have an end when men are dead.’” (107) “in Nauvoo, proto-heavens were created by […]