“A Love Letter to the Exponent Retreat”

"A Love Letter to the Exponent Retreat" ritual

Except for two glorious days each fall in New Hampshire at the Exponent retreat, where I get to be a whole person, with all of my various identities, imperfections, challenges, and contradictions.

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“What Makes a Holy Place?”

"What Makes a Holy Place?" ritual

What does it take to make a place holy? As a scholar of European religious history and architecture, I have stood in many kinds of places that people of various faiths have designated as sacred and wondered exactly what it is that makes them different.

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“Fresh Courage Take”

"Fresh Courage Take" by Emily Fisher Gray

We started planning this issue of Exponent II Magazine in the early months of 2020, intending to highlight and celebrate the long history of public engagement, service and activism among Mormon women going back to pioneer Utah. Then, just as we began to work through the features and articles, the COVID-19 virus hit, followed by […]