2019 Essays

Personal Essays, 2019 Workshop

Magic: An Epistemology of the Restoration
Aileen Christensen, New York University

King Benjamin, Aristotle, and Nineteenth-Century Conceptions of the Heart
Brice Peterson, Pennsylvania State University

Openly Contradictory: Navigating the Gospel as a Gay, Latter-day Saint Scholar
Kirby Childress, Ohio State University

Futility and Faith in The Book of Mormon: Mormon, Adorno, and the Eternal Perspective
Parker Smith, University of Oregon

The Laban Story as a Symbolic Interplay of Goodness and Truth
Christian Swenson, Brigham Young University

Revelation as Refraction
Emaline Maxfield, University of Kansas

The Mystery of One
Jennifer Thorup, University of Notre Dame

“We Seek After These Things”
Katherine Kitterman, American University
Nozomu Okuda, University at Buffalo
Lauren Truman, University of Minnesota

Reading Ancient Scripture and Hearing its “Whisper out of the Dust”
Crismon Lewis, Columbia University