Rosalynde Welch is a member of the Frontenac, Missouri ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She holds degrees in English literature from Brigham Young University and the University of California, San Diego, where her dissertation focused on private conscience in early modern English literature. She writes on interreligious issues for the St Louis Post-Dispatch, and she blogs on Mormonism at Patheos.com and timesandseasons.org. Her writing has appeared in BYU Studies, Dialogue, Element, and other venues. Rosalynde and her husband John, together with their four young children, make their home in St Louis, Missouri.