Praise for Wayfare
“Wayfare is the most encouraging development that I've seen in Mormon letters for some time.” -Nate Oman
“Unbelievably thoughtful and gorgeous.” -Melissa Inouye
“I couldn't be more impressed with Wayfare.” -Joe Spencer
“An astonishing and beautiful publication.” -Ardis Parshall
“Wayfare is amazing.” -Steven Peck
“I love what Wayfare is doing.” -Sam Brown
“Wayfare is a triumph.” -Adam Miller
“Marvelous!” -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
About Us
Wayfare seeks to be a companion and guide on the journey of faith. We publish a range of original writing: essays, interviews, dispatches, profiles, poetry, miracles, sermons, and works of book, film, and art criticism.
The Restoration began with a sincere question and the reception of divine truth. Wayfare embraces that hunger for new light with the conviction that our Heavenly Parents always desire to reveal more to their children.
Because truth is often stranger and more subtle than we imagine, we follow Jacob’s example of wrestling with complexity, mystery, and eternity. For that reason, Wayfare welcomes new voices and ideas that transcend, explore, and expand familiar boundaries—we seek after the true, the good, and the beautiful wherever they may be found.
Our aim is to cultivate within individuals and communities the more abundant life that is found in Christ through writing that is leavened with faith, brightened by hope, and deepened through charity.
Finally, we affirm the revelation Joseph Smith received May 9, 1831: That which is of God is light; and he that receiveth light, and continueth in God, receiveth more light; and that light groweth brighter and brighter until the perfect day.
Wayfare is a publication of the Faith Matters Foundation. We publish weekly through our newsletter as well as in biannual print issues.
Our name was partly inspired by two songs: A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief and Wayfaring Stranger.
If you are interested in writing for Wayfare, you can find more information in our pitch guide.
Get in touch! Write us at wayfare@faithmatters.org.
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Zachary Davis
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Rachel Jardine
Rachael Johnson
Benjamin Peters
Managing Editor
Lori Forsyth
Senior Editors
Gideon Burton
Kristine Haglund
Anna Thurston
Poetry Editor
Kathryn Knight Sonntag
Art Editor
Esther Hi'ilani Candari
Books Editor
Scott Raines
Fiction Editor
Jeanine Bee
Film Editors
Barrett Burgin
Celene Mitchell
Contributing Editors
Shayla Frandsen
Tyler Johnson
Allison Pond
Isaac Richards
Charlotte Wilson
Social Media Editor
Cece Proffit
Digital Editor
Katie Lewis
News Editor
Jaxon Washburn
Creative Directors
Doug Thomas
Cole Melanson
Copyeditor
Mark Melville
Production Assistants
Rosie Serago
Hannah Wilson
Advisory Board
Matt Bowman
Richard Bushman
George Handley
Jennifer Frey
James Goldberg
Randall Paul
Sharrona Pearl
Jana Riess
Charles Stang
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Rosalynde Welch
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People
James Goldberg
James Goldberg is a poet, novelist, and champion of Mormon literature. His works include The Five Books of Jesus and A Book of Lamentations.
Blair Hodges
Amateur seeker, professional communications person.
Zachary Davis
Executive Director of Faith Matters // Editor at Wayfare // Host of Ministry of Ideas.
Carl Youngblood
Tech entrepreneur. President of the Mormon Transhumanist Association.
Tim Chaves
Podcast host, board member at Faith Matters. Tech entrepreneur, husband and dad.
Samuel Benson
Deseret News staff writer. BYU grad. Aspiring peacemaker.
Jason R. Combs
Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University. Master’s degrees from Yale Divinity School and Columbia University. Ph.D in Religious Studies specializing in New Testament and early Christianity from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Joseph Spencer
A philosopher and student of scripture, as well as the author of a lot of different things (books, book chapters, articles, and other academic things).
Joshua Sabey
Josh Sabey is an award-winning writer and director. His recent book, Ali the Iraqi was published by BCC press. His latest documentary won best documentary at the Boston Film Festival where it screened alongside Taika Waititi’s Jo Jo Rabbit.
Kristine Haglund
Kristine Haglund is the author of Eugene England: A Mormon Liberal and a past editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. She should have been a music major, but holds degrees in German Studies from Harvard and the University of Michigan.
Kristian Heal
Kristian Heal is a scholar of early Syriac Christianity and a Research Fellow at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship.
Ryan Fairchild
Ryan Fairchild is an entertainment and technology lawyer, father of three, and husband to the supremely talented Angelyn Otteson Fairchild.
Shayla Frandsen
Wayfare contributing editor. MFA student at BYU, MA in English literature from the City College of New York. Her writing can be found in Under the Sun, Exponent ii, Dialogue, JAKE, Beaver Magazine, and more.
Theric Jepson
Theric Jepson is an author, teacher, critic, and general annoyance based in the Bay Area. See also:
thmazing.com/thbiblio
(@thmazing on social media)
irreantum.associationmormonletters.org
theric@thmazing.com
Alison Brimley
Alison Maeser Brimley’s work has been published in Dialogue, Sunstone Magazine, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Utah with her husband and two daughters.
John Jacob
John Jacob is a retired Professor and Extension Specialist with the Texas A&M University System.
George B. Handley
I am a professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Comparative Literature at BYU where I have taught since 1998. I am the author most recently of The Hope of Nature, If Truth Were a Child, and the novel, American Fork.
Steven L. Peck
Steven L. Peck is an ecologist at BYU and a fellow of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. In addition to his scientific work, he has published four award-winning literary novels, poetry, short stories, and essays.
Nate Oman
I'm a law professor at the College of William & Mary with thoughts on the world, mostly about law, politics, religion, and books.
Natalie Brown
Writer, scholar, mother, lawyer, and Latter-day Saint living in Boulder, CO.
Scott Raines
“And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”
Mark Bennion
Mark's trying to write a few poems, become a good husband & father, and raise the level of conversation. He teaches writing and literature at Brigham Young University-Idaho.
Michael Austin
Michael Austin is the academic vice president and provost at the University of Evansville.
Jordan Watkins
Assistant Professor of Church History and Doctrine at BYU and author of Slavery and Sacred Texts: The Bible, The Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America.
Adam S. Miller
Adam S. Miller is a professor of philosophy at Collin College in McKinney, Texas. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Original Grace, The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace, and An Early Resurrection.
Merrijane Rice
Lead Editor for DMBA and secretary on the Mormon Lit Lab board. My poetry has been published by BYU Studies, Ensign, New Era, Segullah, Wayfare, the Mormon Lit Lab, and the Utah State Poetry Society. For more information, visit www.merrijanerice.com.
M. Esperanza Dotto
Argentinian transplant studying Psychology at BYU.
Lori Forsyth
Wayfare Managing Editor. Lori is happiest when connecting ideas and discussing them with friends. She edits in several places and writes in a few (often LoriNotes.wordpress.com). She has a hard time passing up a good analogy.
Ben and Jenna Storey
We are Senior Fellows at the American Enterprise Institute, Research Professors at Furman University, and co-authors of Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment, from Princeton University Press.
Elizabeth Garcia
Elizabeth Cranford Garcia’s work has recently appeared in Tar River Poetry, Orchards Poetry Journal, and Artemis. She is the current Poetry Editor for Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought. Read more of her work at elizabethcgarcia.wordpress.com.
Jenny Champoux
Director of the Book of Mormon Art Catalog
Richard Bushman
Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University and the author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling: A Cultural Biography.
Gideon Burton
Gideon Burton is Assistant Professor of English at Brigham Young University where he teaches Renaissance literature, literature of the Latter-Day Saints, and rhetoric.
Adam Haver
Adam Haver received the 2022 Willie Morris Award for Southern Poetry. He was most recently published in The Pierian and Braided Way and will be included in an upcoming edition of Ballast. You can connect with him on Twitter: @ac_haver.
Daniel Becerra
Daniel Becerra is an Assistant Professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU and a scholar of early Christianity.
R. de la Lanza
I'm just a man who reads the world... and sometimes writes on it.
Thomas Wayment
Professor of Classics, Brigham Young University.
Rachel Meibos Helps
Rachel Meibos Helps is the Wikipedian-in-Residence at the BYU Library and a writer of interactive fiction and scholarship on Mormon literature.
Nancy Fulda
Nancy Fulda is a past Hugo and Nebula Nominee, a Phobos Award winner and a Vera Hinckley Mayhew Award recipient. She is a professor at at BYU, where she researches knowledge representation, machine learning, and conversational AI.
Ben Inouye
Middle school English teacher. Coach. Husband and father. Occasional bus driver. Author of middle grade fantasy and creative non-fiction.
Cece
Wayfare Social Media Editor.
Jaxon Washburn
Wayfare News Editor; Masters Student at Harvard Divinity School.
Cole Melanson
I like quarto sized books.
Annabelle Clawson
MPhil in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Cambridge. BS in Mathematics from BYU. Academic editor, feminist historian, freelance writer.
Terryl Givens
Terryl Givens is Maxwell Senior Research Fellow at BYU. His books include studies in theology, biography and intellectual history. The New York Times has called his scholarship “provocative reading,” and he has been a commentator on PBS, CNN and NPR.
Benjamin Peters
Wayfare Associate Editor. A media scholar, author, and editor interested in Soviet century causes and consequences of the Information Age. See more work here: Benjaminpeters.org @bjpeters
Tyler Johnson
Editor-at-large. Stanford medical oncologist. Clinical Assistant Professor. Podcaster @TheDoctorsArt. Author writing on spirituality, meaning, and medicine.
Rosalynde Welch
Research fellow and associate director at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship.
Kathryn Knight Sonntag
Kathryn Knight Sonntag is the author of The Mother Tree: Discovering the Love and Wisdom of Our Divine Mother (Faith Matters Publishing, 2022) and The Tree at the Center (BCC Press, 2019).
Faith Matters
Exploring an expansive view of the Restored Gospel.
Moe Graviet
Moe is a graduate student from Emmett, Idaho, studying religion and literature at Yale Divinity School.
Chanel Earl
Chanel Earl is a writer—mostly of fiction—who currently teaches writing at Brigham Young University.
Lizzie Heiselt
Lizzie is a writer, reader, runner, mother, lover, and seeker. She lives in a small Brooklyn, NY apartment with her family and a lot of bikes.
Dallin Lewis
Dallin Lewis is an associate professor of English at Southern Virginia University.
James Talmage Egan
Songwriter who wishes he were a novelist. http://www.jameseganmusic.com/
Bethany Brady Spalding
Bethany writes books; runs school gardens; raises three girls with her lover in Richmond, VA; and serves as the Social Impact Director for Generus.
https://deseretbook.com/t/author/bethany-brady-spalding
https://dstreetpress.com/
Liz Busby
writer of speculative fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and literary criticism; co-host of Pop Culture on the Apricot Tree, a podcast about pop culture from an LDS perspective
Andrew Maxfield
Composer of Music & Words
• 2021 King's Singers New Music Prize, Special Commendation
• “Rhythmically vital … superbly judged … [and] tender”—Fanfare Magazine
Darren Bush
Darren is a paddler, blacksmith, odonatologist, canoe designer, writer, and part-time hospice chaplain. He and his wife Stephanie own Rutabaga Paddlesports, an outdoor specialty shop in Madison, Wisconsin.
alexander laurent rubalcava
Photographer and writer
Benjamin Dearden
Ben Dearden is a lawyer, a husband, and a father of two sons. He enjoys writing articles, screenplays, and stories with tiny audiences.
Lee Ann Setzer
Lee Ann Setzer holds a degree in speech-language pathology and works as project coordinator with a free early literacy project at Brigham Young University.
Bill Turnbull
Bill is co-founder and chairman of Faith Matters and lives in Midway, Utah with the love of his life, Suzy.
Rachael Johnson
Associate Editor of Wayfare;
Mom of three, scholar of early modern religious history, and happiest with a mug of hot chocolate and cozy conversation.
Matthew Bowman
Matthew Bowman is Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University and the author of several books.
Tony Brown
Professor of Russian at BYU
Aubrey Chaves
Faith Matters podcast host and board member. Professional cake artist and mom of four.
Bob Rees
Bob Rees, a scholar, poet, and humanitarian, is co-founder and vice-president of Bountiful Children's Foundation,
Rachel Jardine
Associate Editor at Wayfare. Mother, road-tripper, and part-time attorney. Always in pursuit of more hours in the day, always up for a chat about the secret of life.
Sarah Carter (she/her)
poet, mother, teacher, believer
Miranda Wilcox
Miranda Wilcox is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University where she teaches medieval literature. She holds a MMS and PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame and researches early medieval religious culture.
James R. Swensen
Art and photo historian, curator, and proud father of four skiers.
Michael Ferguson, PhD
Instructor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Director of the Neurospirituality Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Fellow at Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions.
Darlene Young
DARLENE YOUNG is the author of two poetry collections, Homespun and Angel Feathers (BCC Press, 2019), and Here (brand new from BCC Press). She lives in South Jordan, Utah.
Trina Caudle
Trina Caudle is an editor & writer focused on personal stories, and graduated from Western Oregon University with a BS in history & journalism. She and her family live in Washington DC.
Charles Shirō Inouye
Professor of Japanese Literature and Visual Culture at Tufts University and the author of The End of the World, Plan B; zion earth zen sky; and Hymns of Silence (forthcoming from BCC Press).
Esther Hi'ilani Candari
Esther is an Asian-American fine artist and educator from Hawai'i. Across genres and disciplines her work explores the intersections of religion, gender, race, ecology, and sense of place. She currently serves as the Art Editor for Wayfare.
Richard Eyre
Writer
Author or co-author of 59 books including #1 New York Times Bestseller.
Frequently writes with wife Linda
More at TheEyres.com
Jeanine Bee
Jeanine Bee is a writer of short fiction and creative non-fiction, and the fiction editor for Wayfare Magazine. Her works have been featured in Irreantum, Dialogue, and the Mormon Lit Blitz.
Ben Ogles
Clinical psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychology at Brigham Young University.
Ariel Bybee Laughton
Ariel Bybee Laughton, an independent scholar in Houston, Texas, holds a B.A. in History from BYU and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Early Christianity from Duke University. She writes on women, gender, asceticism, and Biblical interpretation in late antiquity.
Courtney Hatch
English Instructor. American Literature MA Student. Creative Nonfiction and Poetry Writer. Knitter of sweaters. Mom of 3.
Alixa Brobbey
Alixa Brobbey is a poet and law student currently based in Provo, Utah.
Valerie Hudson
Valerie M. Hudson is a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Program on Women, Peace, and Security.
Mattathias Singh (he/him)
A Sikh-Mormon-Jew with a wildly interfaith and transcultural intercontinental family. Reader, Writer, Listener, Ponderer.
Jon Ogden
Co-Founder at UpliftKids.org, a lesson library and curriculum for families to explore timeless values together.
Allison Pond
Contributing Editor
Katie Lewis
Wayfare digital editor. Editor for the BYU Studies quarterly publication. Freelance editor for Eschler Editing. Annie Dillard fangirl.
Samuel Brown
I'm a physician scientist working on sepsis and ARDS. Outside medicine, I write books (https://samuelbrown/net) on intellectual history and theology.
Gabriel González Núñez
Gabriel González is the author of several children's books, a short story collection, and a poetry collection. He is a professor of translation at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He was born in Uruguay.