Book Review: China and the True Jesus
For those who love learning about religion and history, this book is for you. It’s about the history of Christianity in China. It begins with missionaries traveling to China in the 1800s and continues...
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Book Review: Ina Coolbrith: The Bittersweet Song of California’s First Poet Laureate
Ina Coolbrith was named California’s first Poet Laureate in 1915. A century later, Aleta George published her biography, which I recommend you all find copies of and read. Ina grew up as a child...
Book Review: The Female Transformation of Narrative: A Review of Kiersten White’s The Guinevere Deception
The Female Transformation of Narrative: A Review of Kiersten White’s The Guinevere Deception By Katherine Cowley As a teenager, I didn’t notice that many of my favorite novels and movies had no female...
Book Review: Bridges by David B. Ostler
David Ostler is a traditional Latter-Day Saint who has joined the ranks of Patrick Mason, Thomas McConkie, Adam Miller and Terryl & Fiona Givens by diving into the milieu of the current Mormon faith...
Book Review- Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
I enjoy reading books about tough women from history, and this book did not disappoint. Frontier Grit tells the stories of twelve pioneer women. Each chapter is devoted to one woman and at the...
Book Review: Ask a Suffragist
“…the very qualities that make art powerful make it inherently risky. Art is vulnerable. When Julia Ward Howe started publishing her work, she revealed both her hidden virtues and her ugliest biases. Art is...
Book Review: A New Constellation by Ashley Mae Hoiland
The heart does not know what it can hold until it is given the thing it must carry. I did not know I would love my children, or the ocean, or the purple flowers...
Book Review: From Housewife to Heretic by Sonia Johnson
Four decades later and Sonia Johnson’s memoir about her feminist awakening, support of the ERA, and excommunication are still very familiar and relevant. This book has been on my shelf for a few years...
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