Preserves
March 16, 2018Apples! Bags and boxes of apples! So many of them lined the perimeter of our garage that the car hardly fit. It was mid-October, and I stood there counting the apples picked from our […]
Apples! Bags and boxes of apples! So many of them lined the perimeter of our garage that the car hardly fit. It was mid-October, and I stood there counting the apples picked from our […]
The apologetic works of Clive Staples (“Jack”) Lewis have transcended denominational boundaries to reach an impressively diverse Christian audience. From the beginning of his apologetic career in the mid-1930s, Lewis received letters from […]
[…] We assumed he had told her where he stayed. But she wasn’t entirely oriented to the sober world and she had pounded on several doors, knowing she was looking for us, but the wrong […]
When my parents died, I inherited our family’s Buddhist altar, or butsudan. It now sits in my living room in Lexington, Massachusetts. I pray before it about twice a month. I burn a stick […]
[…] Affirmation increased the Church’s queer awareness quotient by regularly bringing in queer Latter-day Saints from around the world to meet with Public Affairs at headquarters. Mormons Building Bridges (MBB) was organized, increasing the visibility […]
Dialogue 54.3 (Fall 2021): 41–65 However, the 1886 Revelation and subsequent statement also raised their own doctrinal questions that were continually developed through the lineage that became Woolleyite Mormonism. Namely, why was the resurrected […]
[…] once said, “[We] must do more than go along with what [we] find. [We] must lift the world.”[5] But how to lift when all I want to do is shrink? To straighten, to forgive, […]
Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 29–44 Smith considers “why would any self-aware Black person find Mormonism the least bit appealing given its ignoble history of racial exclusion and marginalization?”
[…] the brightness, and wheels around to face his students, careless of the fact that he represents the world they will work to bury the memory of. Ignorant of the fact that he’s lucky to […]
The speed with which photographs of the Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri were published once they came into the possession of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a gratifying contrast to […]