This book has never been more urgent, timely, relevant, and needed.

From premed student to physician, and eventually from physician to state senator.

Peggy Fletcher Stack’s A World of Faith (BCC Press, 2023), features 32 religions of the world accompanied by Kathleen Peterson’s impeccably detailed illustrations. Like the best of children’s books, it has a lot to teach adults, too. This book is an expansion of the original edition, published in 2001 by Signature Books (a book that boasted a blurb by former president, Jimmy Carter, as well as blurbs by other well-regarded individuals). As in the first book, each religion in A World of Faith receives two paragraphs, starting with an origin story followed by descriptions of current practices and traditions. Fletcher...

he Hymn of the Pearl is an origin story answering the questions, “Where do I come from?” and “What is my purpose on earth?” 

Every Needful Thing... like the ultimate FAQ readers wrestle with on a regular basis...

The poems grapple with women’s roles in Shakespeare and also in Mormon culture. . . . I’m especially struck by Patterson’s compelling, revisionist lens.

The Love Map is a short but mighty novel with a lovely message, no matter in which of the four kingdoms a reader might most often find herself.

Rueckert breaks new ground by centering her marriage, her struggle with the Mormon understanding of marriage, and her year-long global honeymoon journey.

Book Review of I Spoke to You with Silence: Essays from Queer Mormons of Marginalized Genders (edited by Kerry Spencer Pray, Jenn Lee Smith) As a tradition that both “elevates the hetero-nuclear family to the level of a saving ordinance” (3) and routinely denies female sexual desire, there is little space for the open existence of queer women and gender minorities in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the broader Mormon community. Many queer individuals even lack the language to talk about their own experiences. This is the problem that writing professor Dr. Kerry Spencer Pray and...

Book review of The Book of Mormon For the Least of These, Vol. 2 by Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming I have taught the 10-11-year-old class in Primary for six years. While teaching this age group isn’t without its challenges, I do like that I can focus on teaching them to be kind, helpful, grateful kids who look for ways to live like Jesus. In a recent lesson, I spread pictures out on the classroom floor and encouraged the kids to find ones of stories that helped them “remember the works of the Lord.” Some of the pictures...