Mormons do weird things. Just ask the internet. We are a peculiar people, most especially to those unfamiliar with our faith. Most of the time we don’t think the things we’re doing are weird because we understand why we’re doing…
Read More FIONA GIVENS is a retired modern language teacher with undergraduate degrees in French and German and a graduate degree in European History. She is now an independent scholar who has published in several journals and reviews in Mormon studies,…
Read More I, like many other Latter-Day Saints grew up knowing that there were certain topics that were "just not discussed" openly, or even within the privacy of our own homes. Many (if not most) of these topics had to do…
Read MoreIn 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…
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