Ryan Habermeyer lays down the gauntlet immediately in Salt Folk with “La Petite Mort,” a series of micro-vignettes about a professional elephant masturbator (she is never referred to by any other appellation than “the elephant…
This collection of essays provides important new analyses of several of the religious groups that make up the broader Restoration movement begun by Joseph Smith Jr. in 1830, what the editors of this collection call…
Dear Editor, I respect Clyde Ford as a scholar and peacemaker, two roles we have in common. I also appreciate his challenges (“Reconsidering Reconciliation,” in Dialogue 57, no. 2 [Summer 2024], 1–3) to my article…
A foundational tenet and raison d’être of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is that a Great Apostasy occurred within the first few centuries of the early Christian era, resulting in the withdrawal…
The shadows on the hills of afternoon
Overflow the canyons and the cliffs.
The sun is low, now gone.
The labor now is done
And gone the care.
No more constant lover in the spring was there.
I see thee when the blossoms break
the bounds of loveliness,
when streamlets sing.
Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library has recently launched the Mormon Literature Database (http://MormonLit.lib.byu.edu), a comprehensive bibliography of all literary writings by or about Mor mons, destined to be an invaluable resource to scholars…