Book Review: My Lord, He Calls Me, Edited by Alice Faulkner Burch

The full title of the book I’m reviewing is My Lord, He Calls Me: Stories of Faith by Black American Latter-day Saints, a collection edited by Alice Faulkner Burch. This is a collection of firsthand accounts, meaning that my expository nonfiction review rubric isn’t quite appropriate and neither is my creative nonfiction one, seeing asContinue reading “Book Review: My Lord, He Calls Me, Edited by Alice Faulkner Burch”

Book Review: BLUU Notes, edited by Takiyah Nur Amin and Mykal Slack

In this post, we’re talking about BLUU Notes: An Anthology of Love, Justice, and Liberation, edited by Takiyah Nur Amin and Mykal Slack. I loved it. 5 stars.

Book Review: Mormonism and White Supremacy, by Joanna Brooks

Today I’ll review Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence, by Joanna Brooks. Spoiler alert: I recommend it. 5 stars.

Let’s Stop Calling Mormon Churches “Cults”

To me, the BITE model and Hassan’s framework is helpful in understanding your subjective experience. But it’s unscientific and potentially damaging if you use it to describe others’ reality for them.

Please keep that in mind next time you come across a discussion of Mormonism as a cult.