Mormon childhood
Author of best-selling memoir ‘Educated’ comes to terms with Mormon childhood
By Jana Riess — May 21, 2018
Tara Westover grew up in an unusual Mormon survivalist family that stockpiled food for the endtimes and did not formally educate their children. Now the best-selling author of 'Educated' reflects on the Mormonism she left behind.
Everything I need to know, I learned in Mormon nursery
By Jana Riess — April 14, 2015
Popcorn's popping on the apricot tree, and 11 other lessons that bestselling novelist Mette Ivie Harrison learned in Mormon nursery. (My favorite: church lessons can be short. Also, let's start using Playdough in Gospel Doctrine class. Please?)
Mormon Writer Phyllis Barber on “Searching for Spirit”
By Jana Riess — August 15, 2013
In this lovely guest post, Mormon memoirist Phyllis Barber recounts a lifetime spent searching for the places the Spirit resides, though she notes she is a "mere beginner in the ancient business of seeking Spirit and the Divine." Not content to file answers in the "I Know" box, she finds illumination and glimpses of the holy in unexpected ways.
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