Natalie Brown

Commentary: Rising generations of Latter-day Saints will be navigating uncharted waters I can feel the anxiety in the air this fall. My child is in fifth grade, and fifth grade means choices about topics like math placement and school instruments.

My latest discusses parenting in uncertain times and the importance of being led by the Spirit.
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For what it's worth, I loved President Oaks' talk today. I feel like he laid the groundwork for us to be pro-family in a way that is also in tune with today's economic and familial realities.

Indeed, he was a top three professor at UChicago for me.

This is so sad. His class was one of the most transformative I took.

Episode 235: Is it Too Expensive to be a Latter-day Saint? | A Conversation with Natalie Brown “In all my angst about if I would marry and if I would have children and if I would have a career, I did not fully consider how the ideals in this proclamation from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latte...

Spoiler: the answer is yes!

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My latest ponders my summer vacation in Provo and asks what we can learn from it about bridging the political divide.

I have a whole paper about how Susa Young Gates lived George Eliot and maybe tried to imitate Adam Bede (another seduction novel)

BCC Press Introduces John Stevens’ Courtship by Susa Young Gates: Creating the Monogamous Mormon Romance Novel  - By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog Shortly after graduating with a PhD in English and Comparative literature, I realized that I had never read a novel by someone from my own Mormon culture in

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July is a great time to read one of the earliest LDS novels: Susa Young Gates' John Stevens' Courtship. Want to understand how women's dress and domesticity became sites of negotiating the church's relationship with the US? This is a good place to start. And not a bad romance novel.