In a class I was teaching at a non-LDS university on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o classic novel, Weep Not, Child, I asked students what most stood out to them about the book. One student responded: “One of the men had two wives…”…
Read MoreIn 1989, Charles Taylor’s rebel group—The National Patriotic Front of Liberia—launched an insurrection against then leader, Samuel Doe. By the following year, Taylor’s rebels had taken control of most of the country and killed Doe. More than 200,000 people died…
Read MoreRecently headquarters for the LDS Church published this video about "Garments" What questions do you have about LDS Temple Garments...Post in the Comments and we will add them to this post and make it a more comprehensive Q and…
Read More Terryl L. Givens was born in upstate New York, raised in the American southwest, and did his graduate work in Intellectual History (Cornell) and Comparative Literature (Ph.D. UNC Chapel Hill, 1988), working with Greek, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and English…
Read MoreSo at age 14 I just accepted it. Blood and I don’t get along. I would prefer it stay inside people and not come out. It was 9th grade and I was sick, very sick, but was so worried about…
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