The question of gay sexuality and the Mormon church is not an easy one for Ben Abbott. Even after this massive project, beyond prayer, he sees no clear path.
Hayley Powell’s In Which I Set Myself on Fire is a noble effort to give shape to a complex idea — the collective reality of shared experience, the mental synchronicity that happens among close friends.
A note in the program says that Ron “wanted to deter his students from the allure of totalitarianism.” My impression is that explanation was merely an excuse he gave one student’s parent. Whatever Ron’s original pedagogical motives were, those motives di