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The Cycle Of Giving:, Sarai Brown Jan 2025

The Cycle Of Giving:, Sarai Brown

BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

On one hot summer day in the middle of a 3-month stint studying Mandarin Chinese at National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) in Taichung, Taiwan, my friends and I were desperate to sate our appetites after class, even in the atrociously hot and humid conditions. Most of our little group was drawn to a 牛肉麵 niúròu miàn (beef noodle) shop, but the thought of hot soup on a day like this drove me and a couple of others to continue our search. We stumbled upon another outdoor restaurant—though “restaurant” is perhaps a loose term for the holey-tent-covered food stand with mismatched …


Practical Faith For The Real World Reading As If, Believing As If, Kylie Turley Jan 2025

Practical Faith For The Real World Reading As If, Believing As If, Kylie Turley

BYU Studies

A few years ago, I was talking with some friends about the Book of Mormon. Actually, if you know me much at all, then you know that those last five words are unnecessary. Of course I was talking about the Book of Mormon. My children have been known to complain that the Book of Mormon is all I talk about. But let’s continue the story: One of my friends indicated that we “cannot read the Book of Mormon down to the word level.” She insisted that it was just not possible to read it “as if individual words are meaningful.”


The Heyday Of The Mia Latter-Day Saint Youth Programs In The Postwar Era, Lisa Olsen Tait, Amber C. Taylor Jan 2025

The Heyday Of The Mia Latter-Day Saint Youth Programs In The Postwar Era, Lisa Olsen Tait, Amber C. Taylor

BYU Studies

On Saturday, June 16, 1956, a crowd of twenty thousand spectators filled the University of Utah football stadium, nestled against the foothills to the east of Salt Lake City, to witness the Mutual Improvement Association (MIA) Dance-Drama Festival of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hopes were high that the weather would hold, since Friday night’s performance had been canceled because of rain. The weather did cooperate, and for over two hours, a massive procession of brightly costumed young women and men, representing almost every stake in the Church, presented a spectacular program of intricately choreographed dances and …


Using A Reconciliation Approach To Teach Evolution May Help Religious Students Remain Faithful, Danny Ferguson, Ethan Tolman, Spencer Shumway, Cassidy Shively Jan 2025

Using A Reconciliation Approach To Teach Evolution May Help Religious Students Remain Faithful, Danny Ferguson, Ethan Tolman, Spencer Shumway, Cassidy Shively

BYU Studies

Many religious people struggle to accept the theory of evolution, and about 40 percent of Americans reject the theory outright, preferring a literalist, creationist account that confirms a young earth.1 As Latter-day Saints ourselves, we understand the trepidation surrounding the idea that perhaps evolution contradicts our belief of an earth created by a loving Father and Savior. People may feel that the scientific theory of evolution implies that there is no need for a God or that our existence is simply an accident. As college-age youth, we are familiar with the struggles that students face as they confront evolution in …


Front Matter Jan 2025

Front Matter

Inscape

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The Family Plot, Ilse Eskelsen Jan 2025

The Family Plot, Ilse Eskelsen

Inscape

Ilse Eskelsen is a BYU English student who has lived just north of Washington, DC; in Stuttgart, Germany; and just south of Washington, DC. She has pieces published or soon-to-be published in literary journals like Rainy Day, Lunch Ticket, and Inscape Journal.


Three Weeks Ago, I Found A Body, Dead., Christie Gardiner Jan 2025

Three Weeks Ago, I Found A Body, Dead., Christie Gardiner

Inscape

Christie Gardiner is an award-winning author, poet, writer, and performer. Her literary oeuvre includes four ecumenical books (one, currently in its ninth printing), four anthologies, journal publications, booklets, articles, and the writing of her own videocast/podcast. Additionally, Christie has made numerous appearances as a regular media contributor, has cohosted two successful podcasts and serves as a facilitator of writing groups for women. She worked in poetry acquisition for Inscape literary journal, holds a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Utah Valley University and is an MFA student at Brigham Young University. Recent and upcoming publication credits includes poems and essays …


Don't Cry For All The Loves You've Lost, Rose De Maris Jan 2025

Don't Cry For All The Loves You've Lost, Rose De Maris

Inscape

Rose DeMaris is a poet and teacher. Her poetry appears in New England Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Image Journal, Narrative, and elsewhere. A recipient of the 2023 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award and Orison Books’ 2022 Best Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry, she holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. She lives in Los Angeles.


Autoimmune, Jodi Balas Jan 2025

Autoimmune, Jodi Balas

Inscape

Jodi Balas is a neurodivergent poet from Northeast Pennsylvania. A lover of words (salacious, being a favorite – it just rolls off the tongue), her poetry has been accepted in Hole in the Head Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Wild Roof Journal, and elsewhere. Jodi’s poem, “His mouth, mine” was selected as a finalist for the 2023 River Heron Review poetry prize and her poem, “Bone Density” won the 2023 Comstock Review Muriel Craft Bailey Award judged by Danusha Lameris. Jodi is in the process of developing her first Chapbook to market to the poetry world. You could follow her musings …


Heavy Fog, Thick Mist, Caleb Jagoda Jan 2025

Heavy Fog, Thick Mist, Caleb Jagoda

Inscape

Caleb Jagoda is a poet, journalist, and MFA candidate at the University of New Hampshire. He is managing editor at Barnstorm Journal and has published work with Polaris Literary Magazine, Write on the DOT, and Down East Magazine. He lives in Dover, New Hampshire.


Interview With Laura Reece Hogan, Madalyn Hansen Jan 2025

Interview With Laura Reece Hogan, Madalyn Hansen

Inscape

Laura Reece Hogan is the author of Butterfly Nebula, the winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry (Backwaters, University of Nebraska Press, 2023), Litany of Flights, the winner of the Paraclete Poetry Prize (Paraclete Press, 2020), the chapbook O Garden-Dweller (Finishing Line Press), and the nonfiction spiritual theology book I Live, No Longer I (Wipf & Stock). She is one of ten poets featured in the anthology In a Strange Land (Cascade Books) and serves on the board of Red Hen Press. Her poems have appeared in Sugar House Review, Scientific American, RHINO, America, Connecticut River Review, Amsterdam …


Interview With Ashley Farmer Jan 2025

Interview With Ashley Farmer

Inscape

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Interview With Sonya Huber, Skylar Russel Jan 2025

Interview With Sonya Huber, Skylar Russel

Inscape

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Interview With Sean Enfield, Madalyn Hansen Jan 2025

Interview With Sean Enfield, Madalyn Hansen

Inscape

Sean Enfield is an essayist, poet, gardener, bassist, and educator from Dallas, Texas. His debut collection of essays, Holy American Burnout!, was published by Split/Lip Press and was a finalist for the 2024 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction. He received his MFA from the University of Alaska—Fairbanks, where he served as the editor-in-chief of Permafrost Magazine. Now he serves as an assistant nonfiction editor at Terrain.org. He was the 2020 recipient of the Fourth Genre’s Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize and has twice had essays listed as notable in Best American Essays. You can find his work at …


Interview With Alyson Hagy, Ian Curtis Jan 2025

Interview With Alyson Hagy, Ian Curtis

Inscape

Alyson Hagy graduated from Williams College and received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. She is the author of six collections of short stories and two novels, Boleto and Scribe. She currently teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Wyoming and lives in Laramie, Wyoming with her husband, with whom she has one son.


Interview With David Lawrence Morse, Hannah Peterson Jan 2025

Interview With David Lawrence Morse, Hannah Peterson

Inscape

David Lawrence Morse is a professional writer of short stories and plays. His first collection of stories, The Book of Disbelieving, won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. His stories evoke motifs reminiscent of folklore and classic fables.


Full Issue Jan 2025

Full Issue

Inscape

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Responding To A Non-Responsive Response, Brant A. Gardner Jan 2025

Responding To A Non-Responsive Response, Brant A. Gardner

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

James Lucas had the opportunity to respond to the review of the book that he and Jonathan Neville wrote, By Means of the Urim & Thummim. He elected not to really respond to the issues I brought up but rather summarized his essential points. That doesn’t leave much to respond to. However, there is a continuing misunderstanding of how historians work that I feel must be underscored.


Joseph Smith Jr. As A Translator: The Book Of Abraham As A Case Study, Stephen O. Smoot Jan 2025

Joseph Smith Jr. As A Translator: The Book Of Abraham As A Case Study, Stephen O. Smoot

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

This paper examines Joseph Smith’s approach to translation, using the Book of Abraham as a case study to explore the interplay between divine revelation and human participation in scriptural production. While the Book of Abraham incorporates both ancient and modern elements, its unique synthesis resists simple categorization as either an unblemished Abrahamic autograph or a purely nineteenth-century pseudepigraphon. Drawing on historical evidence and textual analysis, this paper aims to illuminate Joseph Smith’s role as both translator and revelator, offering insights into how Latter-day Saints might understand the complex process of producing sacred texts.


Full Issue Jan 2025

Full Issue

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

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From Revolution To Restraint: The Domestic Origins Of France's Foreign Policy Of Non-Intervention In 1830, Annabelle Crawford Jan 2025

From Revolution To Restraint: The Domestic Origins Of France's Foreign Policy Of Non-Intervention In 1830, Annabelle Crawford

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

Many prominent theories of international conflict would predict that in the aftermath of the 1830 revolutions, France should have gone to war with the conservative powers of Europe on behalf of Belgium. However, despite military and political opportunities for war, incentives to spread or counter France’s new liberal ideology, and misunderstandings between France and the other European powers, French leaders and leaders of the conservative great powers alike actively pursued a European peace. This presents a theoretical puzzle: why wasn’t there a conflict between the French revolutionary state and other European states in the aftermath of the July Revolution?


Front Matter Jan 2025

Front Matter

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

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A Letter From The Editor, Hannah Smith Jan 2025

A Letter From The Editor, Hannah Smith

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

This edition of Sigma explores several critical and complex issues in today’s political discourse, including the global effects of U.S. intervention, the link between public support for wars and militant desertion, the influence of public goods distribution on terrorism, and the domestic divisions and radicalization that sparked the French Revolution. Despite their challenging nature, each article offers valuable insights, refining our empirical understanding of these global phenomena and deepening our grasp of the truth.


Holy Disregard: Christian Nationalists More Likely To Accept Democratic Norm Violations From Fellow Citizens, Hannah Criser Jan 2025

Holy Disregard: Christian Nationalists More Likely To Accept Democratic Norm Violations From Fellow Citizens, Hannah Criser

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

How do Christian nationalists react to democratic norm violations from fellow citizens? Previous research on Christian nationalism shows that believers of the ideology prefer right-leaning, conservative politics with a particular affinity for Donald J. Trump, who has shown to support and participate in democratic violations, such as denying election results and advocating for media suppression. However, little is known regarding how Christian nationalists would react to the democratic norm violations committed by fellow peers. In a nationally representative online survey fielded in October 2024, I discover that Christian nationalists are more likely to identify with and support violating democratic norms, …


Full Issue Jan 2025

Full Issue

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

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End Matter Jan 2025

End Matter

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

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Pietà, Jack Stewart Jan 2025

Pietà, Jack Stewart

Inscape

Jack Stewart was educated at the University of Alabama and Emory University and was a Brittain Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His first book, No Reason, was published by the Poeima Poetry Series in 2020, and his work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poetry, The American Literary Review, Nimrod, Image, and others. He currently runs the Talented Writers Program at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.


National Renewal Through Fertility:, Austin Siler Jan 2025

National Renewal Through Fertility:, Austin Siler

BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

Japan has been facing fertility decline over the past several decades. Indeed, this decline constitutes a severe demographic crisis due to its birth rates falling to record lows year after year. Low birth rates have been correlated with economic and societal instability. As Akram (163) posits: “The combination of unfavorable demographics and poor economic growth has resulted in a secular decline” which has no current sign of shifting based on current policy. The government has implemented numerous policies to try and tackle this issue, but with little success. Japan’s population as of 2024 is estimated to be 125 million and …


Full Issue Jan 2025

Full Issue

BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

No abstract provided.


Brigham Young Unfiltered His Life, Conversion, And Faith In His Own Words, Lajean Purcell Carruth Jan 2025

Brigham Young Unfiltered His Life, Conversion, And Faith In His Own Words, Lajean Purcell Carruth

BYU Studies

On October 6, 1867, the Saints met in the new Salt Lake Tabernacle for the first time. Brigham Young rose, made some remarks about the still unfinished state of the organ, and then dedicated the tabernacle to the Lord. This dedicatory prayer was completely unknown until I found the original shorthand record of it several years ago and transcribed it; prior to that time, the earliest known dedication of the tabernacle was 1875. He prayed, “O God our Heavenly Father who dwells in the heavens, in the name of thy Son Jesus Christ we come before thee at this time …