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"Grief, Faith and Gay: Coping With Loss When Faith and Sexuality Collide" workshop on March 27, 2019 (Photo by Amy Loret | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Grief, Faith and Gay: Coping With Loss When Faith and Sexuality Collide

By Amy Loret April 2, 2019

  When faith and sexuality collide, stories involving personal feelings of grief and loss experienced by those in Utah and the University of Utah's LGBTQ+ community are common. "Grief, Faith, and...

(Photo courtesy of Nick Marsing | Manti Mormon Miracle Pageant)

Phasing Out Latter-day Saints’ Pageant Traditions

By Miacel Spotted Elk, News Writer March 24, 2019

  Last year, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced they will cancel more than half of their religious pageants across the country. The already affected pageants included Clarkston...

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Brown: Persecuted Mormon Pioneers Would Be Critical of Their Modern Day Progeny

By Jacob Brown March 24, 2019

  Much of what the early Mormon settlers endured during the early 19th century can be serialized as a relentless campaign of brutal displacement orchestrated by various pro-slavery state governments...

(Courtesy of Mitch Shin)

Why Religious Studies Isn’t Offered in Korean Universities

By Mitch Shin, News Writer March 21, 2019

  The Utah Asia Campus is ready to accept all of the Salt Lake City campus' systems one by one. Less than five years after its opening, however, it is clear that UAC is not ready to open a department...

The Caffeine Cryptid

The Caffeine Cryptid

By Marshall Falkner March 18, 2019

  Coffee. The lifeblood of most college students. Whether you are an actor going to a late-night rehearsal, a med student beginning your residency or a mathematics major finishing a final proof...

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Should Professors Curse in the Classroom?

By Alaikia Marielle March 12, 2019

  Whether or not you felt included in the conversation, we as a society have decided certain words are unacceptable to say — the types of words requiring asterisks in print and bleeps on television....

According to the University of Utah's campus directory, Sterling Van Wagenen's office was 257B in the Art Building prior to his resignation. (Photo by Emily Anderson | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

U Professor Sterling Van Wagenen Resigns After Allegedly Admitting to 1993 Molestation of a Minor

  Film professor Sterling Van Wagenen has resigned following the release of a recording during which he is heard admitting to molesting a minor in 1993, according to spokesperson for the University...

A Utah Ballet Rehersal in the Marriot Dance Building. January 25, 2017. 
(Photo by Adam Fondren | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Spirituality in the U Dance Department

By Alison Myers, Arts Writer March 4, 2019

  “I am not a naturally gifted dancer,” Alyssa Bertelsen, a graduate from the University of Utah ballet program, said. “I don’t have the physique, and my teachers growing up were very sweet....

The Living Legends group in 1977, known as the Lamanite Generation. Courtesy of BYU's Living Legends.

The Making of a Lamanite: Popular Native American Cultural Efforts from the LDS Church

By Miacel Spotted Elk, News Writer February 23, 2019

  In the second and final part of this series, we are looking back at the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that has involved or depicted Indigenous communities in Church-sponsored...

This chapel in Tohatchi, New Mexico, is one of many belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in the Navajo Nation. 
(Photo courtesy of Nathan Anderson)

The Making of a Lamanite: A Brief History Between the LDS Church and Indigenous Communities

By Miacel Spotted Elk, News Writer February 14, 2019

  The history between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Native Americans has spanned almost two centuries. This is a two-part series to analyze this area in LDS studies which...