COVER ART — “Stopping in the Woods” by Corinne Geertsen
“I assemble my works digitally from photos of my ancestors (making occasional ancestor adoptions at thrift stores) and from my expanding archive of over 50,000 photos. It’s all about remix. I’m on a constant photographic scavenger hunt, outfitting ancestors with backdrops, sidekicks and belongings. I print my work myself in small editions on archival photo paper with pigment inks. My images are quirky visual narratives about psychological predicaments. I especially like a good plight. My art leans toward surrealism, as it has odd juxtapositions, non-sequiturs, and an element of surprise. My work content mirrors personal, political, and global situations — in a sly way. My work is a packrat’s nest of things that are deeply a part of being alive: humor, fear, rescucuriosity, individuality, absurdity.” @corinnegeertsen | corinnegeertsen.com
LETTER FROM EDITOR “The ‘Best’ Books” by Carol Ann Litster Young
ESSAY “Humanity Does Not Ask Us to Be Happy” by Emma Tueller Stone
ESSAY “Reading The Plague in a Pandemic” by Amanda Pullan Frost
POETRY “Weaning” by Kristen Blair
ESSAY “The Power of Stories: Reading Watership Down” by Cybèle Marie D’Ambrosio
WOMEN’S WORK “Bookmaking” — Interview With Amelia Anne Sorensen
SABBATH PASTORALS “To Choose Hope Is to Choose Love” by Sylvia Cabus
ESSAY “Alicia: My Story” by Susan
BOOK REVIEW of Mormon Women at the Crossroads by Caroline Kline
ESSAY “Becoming Jane” by Tille Clark
THEOLOGY “One Heart and One Mind” by Kathryn H. Shirts
POETRY “Reading to Be Good” by Emily Updegraff
ESSAY “Truth in Fiction” by Brinley Brown Bushman
ESSAY “Little House in the Big Pandemic” by Katherine Nelson
POETRY “At the Temple” by Seneca Heilesen
ESSAY “Questioning” by Julie Theriault
ESSAY “The Power in Books and Christ” by Cheyenne Gavin
BLOG FEATURE by Dr. Cristina Rosetti, Lindsay Denton, Jennie Loomis
ESSAY “Submission vs Subjection” by Sarah Lindsey
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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 Emily Gray, Kimberly Ence, Pandora Brewer, Caroleine James, Karen Rosenbaum, Tia Thomas, Sherrie Gavin
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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 Siwa Allred, Pam Bowman, Dawn Davis-Lim, Ann Elizabeth Gedicks, Corinne Geertsen, Miranda Meeks, Pahola Alejandra Ramos and Gifty Reynolds Annan-Mensah for allowing us to publish their artwork.
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