By S. Richard Bellrock S. Richard Bellrock has been teaching and working in areas related to philosophy and psychology since 2000. Or, click here to download the audio file: The LDS Proselytizing Mission as Hazing Presumably, you have heard the notion that one of the primary purposes (if not the primary purpose) of the …
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Writing the History of Pets and Other Animals in Mormondom
By Edgar C. Snow Jr. Or, right-click here to download the audio file: Writing the History of Pets and Other Animals in Mormondom Click here to read the PDF version of this article.
You Can Give Him a Kiss
By Alison Maeser Brimley Or right-click to download the audio here: You Can Give Him a Kiss Alison Maeser Brimley is the winner of the 2017 and 2018 Association of Mormon Letters Short Fiction Awards and the 2017 Mountain West Writers Contest. She lives in Utah with her husband and daughter. This …
Confessions of an Aging, Hypocritical Ex-missionary
By Wayne C. Booth Can it be good—even spiritually essential—to be a hypocrite? This professor of rhetoric thinks so. Wayne Booth shares the fruits of his life-long interior discussion between his boyhood Mormon religion fundamentalism and his adult “faith.” All of it, the direct result of his two years as a conflicted, intellectual LDS …
The Broken Chord
By Dana Haight Cattani I’ve heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don’t really care for music, do ya? It goes like this The fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah —Leonard Cohen “Hallelujah” Today …
Leeds: Personal Essay
By Tom Kimball This article features Tom Kimball who is in violation of our code of conduct. For more info on Tom Kimball and his history, click here for the January 14, 2023 statement. CINDY NEVER PLANNED to put an actual blade on the old weathered axe handle that she kept behind her front door. To …
Davinho
By Ryan McIlvain Art by Chad Danger Lindsay My first missionary companion was named Willer, a squat, wide-faced Brazilian from the south of the country. One morning he spread the map of our area on the apartment floor, swept his hand across the populous heart, and said, “I’ve tracted all this with other companions. Pretty …
The Appearance and Disappearance of Lourdes Amarille Estrada
By Roger Terry Or right-click to download audio file here: The Appearance and Disappearance of Lourdes Amarille Estrada Over a dozen years ago, when I was a new editor for the Liahona, the international magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I was sent to the Philippines for two …
Adam and Steve and the Empty Sea: A Play
By Matthew Greene Adam & Steve and the Empty Sea by Matthew Greene received its world premiere at Plan-B Theatre Company (Salt Lake City, Utah) 31 January–10 February, 2013, directed by Jason Bowcutt, starring Logan Tarantino as Steve and Topher Rasmussen as Adam. AUTHOR’S NOTE The aphorism goes that you should “write what …
Update: Issue 170
“Wear Pants to Church” Sunday Brings Attention to Women’s Issues At a time when LDS leaders affirm that God created men and women with “complementary relationships and functions” (Ensign, Oct 2004, 84), a new wave of Mormon feminists seem ready to challenge LDS traditions and policies that they interpret as signs of institutional inequality. …