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December 2024

Homeward Bound
Childhood road trips and the unforeseen destinations of young adulthood
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Allie Richael
2
Walks in the Confusion Range
I, a non-native, non-placed person, have somehow found connection to natives, to places that slowly, perhaps, are becoming my own
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Otto De Groff
3
The Reining in of Ezra Taft Benson
Scholar Matt Harris on the conspiratorial, anti-communist firebrand who divided a quorum
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Zach Stevenson
1
What Trump's Election Means for Latter-day Saint Women
The next generation of church leaders has demonstrated at worst contempt and at best indifference towards women
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Emily Richael
2
Narrating the Sacred
An interview with Matt Wickman, a professor at BYU and a scholar of spirituality in literature
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Sydney Ballif
2

November 2024

Heretic: A Nuanced Depiction of Faith
Willingness to tackle uncomfortable subject matter and unsavory aspects of Latter-day Saint faith doesn't equate to an exploitative or dismissive…
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Shawn Hall
1
Mormonism's Pragmatic Theologian
Like Wendell Berry, Simone Weil, and Henry David Thoreau, Lowell Bennion lived into the question of right living
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Adam Stevenson
1
Utah Should Have Known Better
We returned a plunderer and a villain to our planet’s most powerful position
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The Utah Monthly
4
My Encounter with the “Danish Doctor of Dread”
Hunched over his tall writing desk next to a tall rosewood cabinet in the soft glow of candlelight, the “Danish doctor of dread” scribbles furiously…
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Garrett Maxwell
Everything You Thought You Knew about the Priesthood and Temple Ban Is Wrong
A new book on the subject, already in its third printing, peels back decades of accreted myths and half-truths
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Alice Faulkner Burch
3
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