Letter from the Editor

Many of the contributors explore places that used to be holy or find holy in unexpected places or times. Several others reimagine a holy place.

We wanted to make space in this issue to center friendship as an essential part of our lives.

A chance conversation at a family reunion saved me from a life of scrupulosity. I was thirteen or fourteen, an earnest middle school student,...

I struggle with decisions. When I say that, I don’t mean “it takes me five minutes to order a sandwich” (though that is true)....

I remember in the early days of the pandemic feeling almost a wonder or reverence for the situation we had all just been thrust...

Thank you to the creators out there... helping the rest of us navigate and deal with the challenges of our time.

In March of 2021, I received a message that my grandpa — who’d been mowing his own lawn the day before — had experienced...

I learned family history the old-school, traditionally Mormon way: filling out hundreds of pieces of paper that went into binders full of names. Young...

Dear Exponent Reader, As I write this letter, I imagine you reading it. You discover the magazine in the mailbox, and paging through, pause to...

As I reflect on my tenure as the Editor-in-Chief of Exponent II, I am proud of the work we’ve done in achieving many of...