COVER ART — “Ashley” by Aïsha Lehmann
“This piece is one from a series of portraits based on interviews conducted with mixed-race individuals, whose parents belong to two different racial or ethnic groups. The specific patterns, chair, and posture were significant to the individual’s parentage and upbringing. The project was an effort to better understand people’s personal identities based on heritage, family, and culture as opposed to racial binaries. Many described race as complex and challenging only in a societal context. On personal and familial levels, mixed identity can be a beautiful merging of two very different cultural histories. This work explores this juxtaposition. In general, mixed peoples’ experiences provide profound evidence both of racial progress in our communities, as well as persistent, racial discriminatory systems.” @aishalehmannart | aishalehmann.com
LETTER FROM EDITOR “Eve Choices” by Rachel Rueckert
ESSAY “Utah Valley Gothic” by Catherine Crenshaw
POETRY “Disruption” by Kristen Ridge
ESSAY “I Lost My Mormon Boy” by Jill Yancey
POETRY “They Offered Me a Paradise” by Abigail Tenney
ESSAY “There Is No End to Matter” by LeAnne Bingham Hansen
BOOK REVIEW of The Brain’s Lectionary by Elizabeth Pinborough
ESSAY “Salt” by Bridget Verhaaren
POETRY “Parables” – Caitlin Connolly
THEOLOGY “Human Agency and the Inner Sea” by Kristen Blair
POETRY “To Know” by Ashley Belle Harris
FLANNEL BOARD “Evaluating Art Choices” by Esther Hi’ilani Candari
ARTIST FEATURE “Creating Worlds with a Sheet of Paper” — Interview with Susana I. Silva by Andrea Porras
Available in English and Spanish
ESSAY “Eve’s Choice/My Choice” by Christina Taber-Kewene
ESSAY “Truth Over Comfort” by Valerie Hamaker
POETRY “Communion” by Elise Christine
BLOG FEATURE by McArthur Krishna, Abby Hansen, Bryn Brody
ESSAY “Are We Not All Mothers?” by Naomi Horne
ESSAY “Falling” by Stephanie Sorensen
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Rachel Rueckert
Managing Editors Carol Ann Litster Young
Art Editor Page Turner
Managing Art Editor Natalie Taylor
Layout Designer/ Editor Rosie Gochnour Serago
Women’s Theology Editor Eliza Wells
Sabbath Pastorals Editor Fara Sneddon
Poetry Editor Abby Parcell
Subscription Manager Gwen Volmar
Blog Feature Editor Katie Ludlow Rich
Proofreaders Kami Coppins, Cherie Pedersen, Karen Rosenbaum
Additional Staff Sandra Clark Jergensen, Kimberly Ence, Tia Thomas, Tracy Allen
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EXECUTIVE BOARD
President Lori LeVar Pierce
Treasurer Jeanine Bean
Secretary Kirsten Campbell
Members Crystal Adams, Zannah Bingham Buck, Andee Bowden, Tirza Davis, Lindsay Denton, Carol Ann Litster Young, Rachel Rueckert, Heather Sundahl
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SPECIAL THANKS
Thank you to Aïsha Lehmann, Brittany Archibald, Susana I. Silva, Erica Diane Nelson, Amy Stephensen, JaNessa Droubay, J. Amber Egbert, Madyson Ysasaga, Kindia du Plessis, and Esther Hi’ilani Candari. We are also especially grateful to Camilla Stark, who illustrated artwork specifically for Catherine Crenshaw’s essay.
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