Pando: The Secret Life of Trees
August 26, 2020[…] 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, […]
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Negotiating Black Self-Hate within the LDS Church
January 14, 2019Dialogue 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?”
Reverse Perspective
October 26, 2018[…] 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 […]
A Translation of the Apparent Source of the Book of Abraham
May 3, 2018The 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 […]
Manhattan Faces
May 3, 2018If you like fresh air, 25¢ hamburgers, and security, New York may not be the place for you. If you want a Rinso-clean wash you can hang in the backyard, where crickets sound at […]
Vardis Fisher and the Mormons
May 3, 2018[…] of God. No other work of literature has presented the Mormon story more forcefully to the non-Mormon world. Not surprisingly, however, Mormons have never made a cult of Vardis Fisher. Reared a Mormon, Fisher […]
A Little-Known Defense of Polygamy from the Mormon Press in 1842
April 26, 2018[…] 9.4 (Winter 1974): 21–34 Foster points out that in 1842 an unpublished pamphlet was written called “ The Peace Maker” that expressed its support for polygamy. It is the first-known defense of polygamy before […]
The Alienation of an Apostle from His Quorum: The Moses Thatcher Case
April 18, 2018[…] to labor.” Wrote Young, Thatcher “throws away the Priesthood and hugs poli tics, rendering fealty to the world at the same time inconstant to his former vows.” Lorenzo Snow would agree a year later […]
What You Leave Behind: Six Years at the MTC
April 16, 2018[…] learning to obey all the rules and not always knowing why. This is especially hard in a world where everything you do usually has to have a reason.” Other, less prevalent stresses included the […]
“The Prophet Puzzle” Revisited
April 1, 2018[…] and dreamed dreams, re stored the church, and revealed the will of the Lord to a sinful world.”[1] To resolve this “schizophrenic state of Mormon history, with its double interpretive strand of Joseph Smith […]