by Features Editor Shelah Miner
Last Monday morning, I opened the door to the pediatrician’s office and sighed. My kid was scheduled for a well visit, but every other kid in the packed room suffered from the same unspecified viral illness. Bracing myself for two inevitabilities– a long wait and sick kids two days later, I [...]
Did you know that the RBS’s very own Kathy Soper, editor of Segullah, wrote a book? A memoir, to be specific, called The Year My Son and I Were Born. It’s the honest, compelling, beautifully-told story of the year after her seventh child, Thomas, was born with Down syndrome.
It’s a truly fantastic book. [...]
The Association for Mormon Letters’ Annual Meeting is coming up soon. Here’s the official announcement:
The AML Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday, February 28th at the library at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
We’re tremendously excited to announce that the keynote speaker for the AML Annual Meeting will be Terryl L. Givens. With [...]
by Shelah Miner
If you came into my house and started rifling through the closets and drawers, you’d quickly discern our family’s academic allegiance– we’re Cougars through and through. I was an English major in the early and mid-nineties, when there wasn’t much job security for BYU English professors. But I’m not embarrassed to say that [...]
So, what’s more fraught with cognitive dissonance than being a feminist, slightly left-leaning Mormon in Sacrament Meeting?
Being a FSL-LM who is also an effete snob in an “open and affirming” Congregational worship service!
Call For Papers:
The Association for Mormon Letters announces that our Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday, February 28th on the campus of Utah Valley University.
The theme of the Meeting is “Proving Contraries: the power of paradox in Mormon literature and film.” We welcome all submissions. Please [...]
I loved Steven P’s recent post about Bergsonian philosophy and Christmas (and Star Trek, to boot). Reading it reminded me of my favorite Christmas-y story.
So, one of the best things about my job is reading personal essay submissions. I love having people share bits of their lives and thought–it really feels like an honor to be trusted with personal writing. There are few things that I find more frustrating, though, than a really wonderful story or idea embedded in [...]
My husband and I briefly dated when we were teenagers. At the time, his dad had this awesome sailboat that he would take out onto the Great Salt Lake. Yes, it is a little known secret that once you get past the brine flies, the mud, and the stinking dead fish salty smell, the Great Salt Lake offers [...]
OK, so I confess that the Mormon publishing link here is tenuous at best. But the illustrator of my favorite children’s Christmas book ever says in his bio. that he lives in Salt Lake City and has six kids. I think that’s close enough.
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