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Issue 190—Spring 2023
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Theology
A Tale of Two Deities, By S. Richard Bellrock
Contemporary
Creating Moral Agents: The Similarities between AI Risk and the Plan of Salvation, By R. W. Richey
All Things Common: Economic Collectivism
in LDS Theology, History, and Future, By Keith Burns
History
A Divided Heart: Ethalinda's Two Husbands, By Dawn House
How the Hebrew Bible Might Inform Our Thinking about Tithing, By M. David Huston
Culture
Mormon Socrates, By Theric Jespson
Mormon Life
The Return, By Stephen Carter
Against Blessings: Or, Why We Need to Say No to Carrots and Sticks, By Barry Laga
Braving the Borderlands: A Borderlander in Mexico, By D. Jeff Burton
Poetry
Admonition at End of Day, By Cecil Morris
Water Rising, By Anita Tanner
Winter Solstice, By Anita Tanner
Motherhood As Safety Coffin, By Elizabeth C. Garcia
Out of Kindness Made, By Cecil Morris
It Would Have Been Sufficient, By Simon Peter Eggertsen
The Proposal, By Marilyn Bushman-Carlton
Desire, By Marilyn Bushman-Carlton
Lament: A Triptych, By Elizabeth C. Garcia
Red Rock Bleeds When It Rains, By Dixie Partridge
For a Friend, Moved States Away, By Dixie Partridge
Issue 188—Spring 2022
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Contemporary
The LDS Proselytizing Mission as Hazing, By S. Richard Bellrock
Earth Stewardship: Our Work for the Unborn, By Robert A. Rees
Theology
Reconciling Mormonism With Pluralism, By Ronn Smith
Mother-hunger, By Dayna Patterson
Why Korihor Needed a Good Physical Therapist, By Wade Greenwood
History
Household Codes and "The Family: A Proclamation to the World", By M. David Huston
Mormon Life
Linguini to Spare, By Megan Greenwood
An Inappropriate Friendship, By Stephen Carter
Decorating Quarantine, By Grace Pool
The Mormonator and Me: A Pandemic Face-off, By John Hatch
Braving the Borderlands: A Church Employee in the Borderlands, By D. Jeff Burton
Poetry
Psalm 500, By Michael Hicks
Psalm 572, By Michael Hicks
Do They Miss Us?, By Craig Watts
Psalm 601, By Michael Hicks
Psalm 602, By Michael Hicks
Psalm 560, By Michael Hicks
Dog's No-shows, By R. A. Christmas
Issue 188—Fall 2019
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Theology
God as the Answer to Fermi's Paradox, By R.W. Richey
Sin Does Not Exist: And Believing that It Does Is Ruining Us, By S. Richard Bellrock
Circles of Light, By Susan Meredith Hinckley
History
Daniel Webster Jones: A Western Hero, By Victoria Riskin
Culture
You Can Give Him a Kiss, By Alison Maeser Brimley
Fledglings, By Dayna Patterson
Dovesong: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry, Reviewed by Bert Fuller
Adam and Lilith. And Eve, Fiction by Ryan Shoemaker
Mormon Life
Call Me By My Name, By Stephen Carter
A More Hospitable Habitat, By Suzette Widdison Iverson
Braving the Borderlands: Mysterious Ways Part III, By D. Jeff Burton
Poetry
Articles of New Faith, By Heather Holland
Still Mormon, By Dayna Patterson
Issue 187—Fall 2018
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Contemporary
Own Your Religion, By Gregory A. Prince
Greenwashing in Zion, By Mark Thomas
Theology
The Carpenter's Union: Salvator Mundi, By Robert A. Rees
Flesh, Language, Sacrament, By Tyler Chadwick
Culture
Arnold Lobel and Me, By Martha Taysom
Low and the Hermeneutics of Silence, By Jacob Bender
Jesus Christ (Almost) Visits the Mormons, Fiction by Ryan Shoemaker
Books, by Bert Fuller
Tower, Fiction by Ryan McIlvain
A Dove and a Serpent, Short Fiction by Tom Kimball
420 North, Fiction by Alex Peterson
Mormon Life
Poured Out Like Water, By Charlotte Johnson Willian
Braving the Borderlands: An LGBTQ Borderlander, By D. Jeff Burton
Poetry
That's All Right, Mama, Just Anyway You Do, By J. S. Absher
Words Matter: Lines Written in a Pew, By Anita Tanner
I Was Raised by Communists!, By R. A. Christmas
Issue 186—Spring 2018
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History
Latter Day Objector: The Story of F. Henry Edwards, By Andrew Bolton
Contemporary
Generation X and Framing Gender in the Church: My Personal Journey, By M. David Huston
Theology
The Carpenter's Union: Pentecost, By Robert A. Rees
Culture
Strange Nutrition: Eric Freeze's Invisible Men, Reviewed by Braden Hepner
Books, By Bert Fuller
Mormon Life
Leave the Leaves, By Emily W. Jensen
The Broken Chord, By Dana Haight Cattani
Walking into the Forest, By Rev. Patty Willis
Rorschach Test, By Miguel Barker-Valdez
There is U-235 in My Soul Today, By Karen Rosenbaum
You Are Whole, By Mette Ivie Harrison
Braving the Borderlands: Imagining Changes that Benefit Borderlanders, By D. Jeff Burton
The Enso of Christ, By Ted Lee
Poetry
Former Mormons Catechize Their Kids, By Dayna Patterson
Spaces Needed in the 21st Century, By L. N. Allen
He Falls Asleep in My Arms, By L. N. Allen
Issue 185—Summer 2017
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History
Leonard Arrington: A Life in Quotes, By Steph Lauritzen
Culture
The Thicket, Fiction by Bradeigh Godfrey
Jane's Journey, Fiction by Heidi Naylor
Theology
The Carpenter's Union: Jesus, Mormons, and Holy Week, By Robert A. Rees
In the World but Not of the World?: The Rise of the "Nones" and Why Mormonism Needs Them, By Boyd J. Petersen
Mormon Life
Braving the Borderlands: Experiences of an Open Borderlander: Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, By D. Jeff Burton
In Weakness, Strength, By Jacob Baker
Mormon Identity Policing Is No Laughing Matter, By Derrick Clements
Story, By Jody England Hansen
A Strip of Cloth, By Stephen Carter
Poetry
Prayer for Reconciliation, By Patty Willis
In the Antique and Collectible Mall, By L. N. Allen
Issue 184—Spring 2017
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History
The Excommunication of Charles William Kingston, By Charles Elden Kingston
Theology
The Lord of the Dance, By Robert A. Rees
Everywhere is the Center of the World, By Mark Thomas
Contemporary: LDS Approaches to the New Presidency
Marble Walls By Tamarra Kemsley
When Prophecy Matters, By Michael Austin
What Is Struggling to Be Born?, By Carol Lynn Pearson
Morning Sequence, By Lon Young
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Don, By Stephen Carter
Hope in the Age of Trump, By Eric Samuelsen
When Testimony Meeting and Heavy Metal Collide, By Seth L. Bryant
I'm No Superhero, by Boyd J. Petersen
The Benefit of a Doubt: How the New Presidency Could Change Mormon Political Conversation, By Rachel Mabey Whipple
Culture
Invisible But Real, Personal Essay by John Gustav-Wrathall
The Dead Are All Around Us, Fiction by Luisa Perkins
Mormon Life
Braving the Borderlands: Crisis of Faith vs. Crisis of Belief, By D. Jeff Burton
The Mormon Therapist: Approaching Depression Constructively, By Natasha Helfer Parker
Poetry
Cup, By L. N. Allen
Science Fan, Science Fiction, By L. N. Allen
Pups and Cats, By R. A. Christmas
Dog at Work, By R. A. Christmas
Why I Stay, By R. A. Christmas
Mausoleum, By Steph Lauritzen
Editorial
How to Fix Your Sunday School Using these Three Easy Tricks, By Stephen Carter
Issue 183—Winter 2016
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Theology
As Honey for Sweetness: Wrestling With the Various Voices of Scripture, By Julie M. Smith
The Carpenter's Union: Finding Jesus in the Labyrinth, By Robert A. Rees
Well, Dr. Nibley, I Do Have a Suggestion: Always Believe God, Always Disbelieve Lucifer, By Ian R. Harvey
Becoming the Beloved of the Lord: Maturing through the Stages of Spiritual Growth, By Philip G. McLemore
History
Danites, Damsels, and World Domination: Mormons in the Dime Novels, By Michael Austin
Contemporary
The Pattern: "Fill up the world," and "Let every man live," By David R. Hall
Culture
The Madness of Faith, Personal Essay by Emily Belanger
Into the River, Fiction by Larry Menlove
Mormon Life
Braving the Borderlands: Experiences of a Missionary Borderlander, By D. Jeff Burton
Poetry
Common Grief, By M. Shayne Bell
Editorial
A Reluctant Pioneer, By Stephen Carter
Issue 182—Fall 2016
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Theology
Why Ritual "Makes Sense," By Dan Wotherspoon
Tongue of Angels or Mind of the Borg, By Roger Terry
What Remains When Disbelief Has Gone, By Derrick Clements
The Carpenter's Union: Jesus in the Air, By Robert A. Rees
Contemporary
A Peculiar People?: How Neo-Orthodoxy has Crept into the Mormon Church, By Robert C. Hunsaker
The Art of Feminism: Forgotten Wives Remembered, By Sonja Farnsworth
Culture
The Mandelbrot Set, Fiction by Heidi Naylor
PJ, Fiction by Jennifer Quist
Mormon Life
An Open Palm and a Consecrated Life: Three Meditations on Being-with Others, By Tyler Chadwick
Patches of Yellow: On Depression and Church Attendance, By Deja Earley
Braving the Borderlands: Building an LDS-Compatible Personal Religious Model, By D. Jeff Burton
Creating in the Borderlands, By Stephen Carter
2016 Salt Lake Symposium Report
Issue 181—Summer 2016
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History
Polygamy and the Early Mormon Hawaiian Mission, By John J. Hammond
"A Brother in the Pale-face": White Mormons and Indigenous Polygamies, By Amanda Hendrix-Komoto
Culture
Tyrants of the Spirit, Memoir by Dorothy Allred Solomon
The Bigamist, Fiction by Eric Freeze
Poly-Wood!: Mormon Polygamy in the Movies, By Randy Astle
Contemporary
Legalizing Polygamy: Cultural Bias, Moral Obligation, and Social Tolerance, By Robyn Williams
Mormon Life
Progressive Polygamy, By Brady Williams
The Mormon Therapist: Principles for Polyamory, By Natasha Helfer Parker
Braving the Borderlands: Mysterious Ways, Continued, By D. Jeff Burton
The All-seeing "I": Escaping the Faith Crisis Cycle, By Russ Osmond
Poetry
Sylvia Porter Sessions Lyons, By Marita Dachsel
Emily Dow Partridge, By Marita Dachsel
Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde, By Marita Dachsel
Issue 180—Spring 2016
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Contemporary: Analyzing the November 2015 Handbook Update
The Church as a Wounded, Unconscious Parent, By Michael Farnworth
Supporting Your LGBT Loved One in Today's Church, By Natasha Helfer Parker
Thinking about the Handbook Update Using the Four Quadrants, By Russ Osmond
The Stubborn Ounces of My Weight, By Dana Haight Cattani
Theology
In the Presence of the Lord, By Kenny Kemp
The Quest for the Historical Jesus, By Robert A. Rees
Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt, Reviewed by Stephen Carter
History
How Warren Jeffs Maintains His Hold over the FLDS, By Ken Driggs
Culture
Still Finding Pieces, Personal Essay by Lia Hadley
And Thorns Will Grow There, Fiction by Emily Belanger
Mormon Life
The Fellowship of the Saints, By Edward Hogan
Liquid Assets: How Climate Change Could Affect the LDS Church in Florida, By Mark Thomas
Braving the Borderlands: Coming Out of the Closet to Your Spouse, By D. Jeff Burton
Scriptural Landscapes, By Nathan Arp
Poetry
Out of Your Head with Fever, By Anita Tanner
Issue 179—Fall 2015
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History
Contemporary
Adoption: A Triangle of Shame, By Christy Crowe Hughes
The Chairlift Missionary, By Hans. G. Ehrbar
Theology
Paul's Wisdom for Our Divided Church, By Frances Lee Menlove
Jesus Is the Population of the World, By Robert A. Rees
Culture
Mothers and Daughters, Fiction by Karen Rosenbaum
Death of an Old Dog, Personal Essay by Patricia Karamesines
Mormon Life
Health to the Naval . . . or Not: Tell Me the Stories of Jesus, By Dana Haight Cattani
The All-seeing "I": Thinking Outside Your Quad, By Russ Osmond
Braving the Borderlands: Being Thoughtfully and Lovingly Honest, by D. Jeff Burton
Poetry
Beg, Ch, Dc, Yo, Tr, Sc, By Anita Tanner
Shadows of the Heart, By Lawrence Bowker
Issue 178—Summer 2015
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Exploring the Gospel Topics Essays
From North Star to Constellation: "First Vision Accounts," By Stephen C. Taysom
The Book of Abraham Crisis: A History, By Christopher C. Smith
Plural Marriage Among Early Latter-day Saints, By George D. Smith
"Are Mormons Christian?": A Historical Perspective on the Gospel Topics Essay, By Jana Riess
"Are Mormons Christian?": A Personal Response, By Dan Wotherspoon
Late but Welcome: "Race and the Priesthood," By Armand Mauss
The Continuing Effects of the Priesthood Ban, By Mica McGriggs
Violence, Mormonism, and the Sober Lessons of History, By Joanna Brooks
The Essays' Effect on the International Church, By Gina Colvin
The Faith Crisis: A Step in the Right Direction?, By Michael Barker
Culture
Aquascape #6, Fiction by Lon Young
Seriously—Why the Hell Can't You Be More Like the Nelsons?, Art Review by Theric Jepson
Mormon Life
Health to the Naval . . . or Not: Job's Comforters, By Dana Haight Cattani
The Carpenter's Union, Amazing Grace, By Robert A. Rees
Braving the Borderlands: A Successful Borderlander Shares His Story, By D. Jeff Burton
Poetry
Love and Virtue, By Jeff Nydegger
Issue 177—Spring 2015
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Single in the Borderlands
To Russia with Love, By Elna Baker
Sneaking Up on Sex, By Jean Marie S. Place
Single Men in 19th-century Mormonism, By Jeffery Ogden Johnson
Four Single Men that I Hope Never Marry, By P.Q. Gump
Dandelion Mama, By Tracy McKay-Lamb
Single in the Borderlands, By Kristine Haglund
History
Culture
Chariot Race in D-Wing, By Darin Cozzens
The Cokeville Miracle and Freetown, Reviewed by Stephen Carter
Mormon Life
Health to the Naval . . . or Not: Rachel, Not Comforted, By Dana Haight Cattani
Finding Christ at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, By Robert A. Rees
Braving the Borderlands: Staying in the Church and Making it Work, by D. Jeff Burton
The Mormon Therapist: Neither a Sin nor a Transgression, By Natasha Helfer Parker
Contemporary
Religion and the Whole Brain, By Russell Osmond
Poetry
Missionary Work in Kanata, Canada, By Dayna Patterson
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