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  • by Rachel Ann Nunes
  • Posted on December 28, 2009

SF&F Corner: What I’d Like to See in LDS Genre Fiction

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  • by Scott Parkin
  • Posted on December 25, 2009

Storytelling & Community: Wait and Hope—and Progress

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  • by Ed Snow
  • Posted on December 22, 2009

A Most Heinous Episode

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  • by Gideon
  • Posted on December 21, 2009

Electronic Age: Is embodied experience endangered by books?

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  • by Annette Lyon
  • Posted on December 17, 2009

The Populist’s Soapbox: Not Milton or Shakespeare, But Working on It

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  • by James Goldberg
  • Posted on December 14, 2009

Storytelling & Community: Hanukah Thoughts on Mormon Letters

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  • by Chris Bigelow
  • Posted on December 13, 2009

Community Voices: Literary Balm for a Modern Dilemma

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  • by J Scott Bronson
  • Posted on December 12, 2009

On-Stage: How it Happens: An Introduction

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  • Gómez/Núñez, “Volveré…con el alma silenciosa: poemas de Consuelo Gómez” (Reviewed by Jessie Christensen)
  • Hutchins, Joseph: An Epic (Reviewed by Henrik Sorensen)
  • McBeth, “Deseret Series” (Reviewed by Andrew Hamilton)
  • Allred, “Seeing (Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants)” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Barlow “Time (Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants)” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Stark, “The Desert Prophet“ (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Collings, “Divine Law (Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants)” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Givens, “Agency (Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants)” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Swallow, Blythe, Eliason, Rudy “The Three Nephites: Saints, Service, and Supernatural Legend” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Hanks, “To Be A Friend of Christ: The Life of Marion D. Hanks” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Stapley, “Holiness to the Lord: Latter-day Saint Temple Liturgy” (Reviewed by Kevin Folkman)
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  • Stark, “The Desert Prophet” (Reviewed by Henrik Sorensen)
  • Sorensen, “A Thin Black Veil” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Hoklotubbe and Zacharias, “Reading the Bible on Turtle Island: An Invitation to North American Indigenous Interpretation” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Shae, “Eden Skin” (Reviewed by Andrew Hamilton)
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