Title: Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death, Edited by: Stephen Carter, Published: Signature books, 2017, Pages: 257 Genre: Narrative Non (mostly!) Fiction ISBN: 978-1-56085-265-0 Price: 23.95 Reviewed By Andrew Hamilton at the Association for Mormon Letters and Approaching Justice, shared here by permission. This article features a mention of Tom Kimball, who is in violation …
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This Is Your Brain On Polygamy
My husband and I didn’t just wake up one sunny morning and say, “Let’s join a polygamist cult.” Over time, a convergence of psychological and social factors ripened us for the picking. Insecurities played a part. So did classic, cultish appeals. So did mainstream Mormonism, not just by laying a doctrinal foundation, but by training …
This Is Your Brain On Polygamy
My husband and I didn’t just wake up one sunny morning and say, “Let’s join a polygamist cult.” Over time, a convergence of psychological and social factors ripened us for the picking. Insecurities played a part. So did classic, cultish appeals. So did mainstream Mormonism, not just by laying a doctrinal foundation, but by training …
Why I Don T Need Heavenly Mother
The Mormon theology of a Heavenly Mother has been widely discussed as a transcendent and empowering doctrine, especially among Mormon feminists. While we recognize this can be a valuable paradigm for many, this panel will discuss some of its implications. For example, what does a heterosexual god-couple imply for same-gender couples? Would feminizing some attributes …
SW10014: Book Preview/Panel: Persistence of Polygamy: A Mormon Anthology
Co-editor Newell G. Bringhurst presents an overview of this forthcoming anthology of 20 never-before-published articles about polygamy. Essays cover Joseph Smith and the beginnings of polygamy, polygamy in Utah after Joseph Smith and reactions to the practice from other restoration groups, and the perpetuation of polygamy among Mormon fundamentalists that emerged in the late nineteenth …
SL09151 A Price Far Above Rubies vs. Eight Cows: What’s a Virtuous Woman Worth?
Produced by BYU in 1969, the short film Johnny Lingo is often cited as a wise, compassionate story of male sensitivity to female identity, a positive demonstration of how to foster female self-worth. But the story hinges on the idea that a woman’s self-esteem is based on the price she commands in a financial transaction …
SL09274 Panel: A Murder of Editors
Playwright and film director David Mamet writes that “art flourishes in times of struggle.” A panel of editors from various Mormon magazines and journals will discuss the role struggle has played in the writings they have recently published. They will also discuss the struggle of their publications to meet and prosper from the challenges of …
Comedy. ‘What Should Wives Really Know?’ and ‘I Just Want to Bare . . . ‘
Comedy. ‘What Should Wives Really Know?’ and ‘I Just Want to Bare . . . ‘ Following a quick lunch, join the delightful Becky Linford on a trip into two classic arenas for LDS comedy: self-improvement books and stuff that happens (or is said to have happened) in church meetings. Inspired by recent discussions among …
SAINTS AND GENTILES: REFLECTIONS ON MORMONISM AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY
SAINTS AND GENTILES: REFLECTIONS ON MORMONISM AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY Mormonism has always possessed a theologically progressive outlook on the fate of the “unevangelized.” The doctrine that every person will have the opportunity to accept the LDS gospel is a key feature that distinguishes Mormonism from many mainstream Christian traditions. However, important questions remain unexplored in …
THE FERRYMAN’S DAUGHTER, PART 1: THE INSISTENT CALL OF MY MITOCHONDRIAL DNA
THE FERRYMAN’S DAUGHTER, PART 1: THE INSISTENT CALL OF MY MITOCHONDRIAL DNA While DNA science challenges such Mormon beliefs as Israelite ancestry for Native Americans, it promises fresh pursuits for genealogists. Particularly suggestive is our ability, publicized by Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes’s Seven Daughters of Eve, to track mitochondrial DNA mutations to European “clan mothers”, …