Issue 2 Update, Three New Essays and an Invitation to a Special Event with Tara Isabella Burton
Re-enchantment, Bruce R. McConkie, Small Infinities, and the History of the Selfie
ISSUE 2 UPDATE
Dear Readers,
Wayfare Issue 2 is being printed and mailed next week (there were some paper supply delays), so if you're a subscriber, you should receive your issue in early September if not sooner.
The good news is that if you aren't a print subscriber yet, you can subscribe today and still receive Issue 2 in the mail. You can use the promo code FRIEND for 20% off a subscription.
As a preview, below are a few of the spreads and the Table of Contents. We can’t wait for you to hold it in your hands!
THREE NEW ESSAYS
The Re-Enchantment of the Earth
There is a well-defined but little-recognized eco-theology at the heart of the Restoration, as laid out by Joseph Smith and his early followers, that puts humanity at the same level as every other creature on this earth: All life and landscapes are endowed with a spiritual essence of one form or another. The earth and all its flora and fauna form a
The Theological Turn in Book of Mormon Studies
I’ve dedicated a lot of years to reflecting on and writing about one question: If we take the Book of Mormon as seriously as possible, fully attentive to both its literary and its historical complexity, what do we learn about theology? When I first set out to answer this question, I didn’t anticipate anyone beyond a few friends caring about it. But thes…
Infinity Could Not Be Smaller
In Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce punctuates his image of the eternities with exclamation marks: “For ever! For all eternity!... Try to imagine the awful meaning of this. You have often seen the sand on the seashore. How fine are its tiny grains! And how many of those tiny little grains go to make up the small handful which a child gr…
SPECIAL EVENT WITH TARA ISABELLA BURTON: HOW TO MAKE A SELF
On Friday, August 18th at 12pmMT (tomorrow), I will be in conversation online with the award-winning writer Tara Isabella Burton, whose fiction and nonfiction have a pulse on contemporary social and cultural conceptions of the self and the sacred. We’ll be discussing her new book Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians as well as themes from her previous work.
If you are interested in this event, you can learn more and register here. If you are a Wayfare subscriber, you can join for free by RSVPing here or below.
I literally am so excited for this issue! Hurrah.
Hi, Zachary, I’m not sure if this is the final proof, but there’s a typo on the title of my poem on the contents page: “Tempation” should be “Temptation,” and Dayna’s poem has “Seedlingsin” where I am guessing it should be “Seedlings in.”