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Among the Mormons: A Survey of Current Literature
May 4, 2018Continuing our bibliographical coverage of Mormon material, we turn our attention in this issue to dissertations and theses written to fulfill requirements for graduate degrees.
The Church and the Law | Dallin H. Oaks, “The Suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor,” and Orma Linford, “The Mormons and the Law: The Polygamy Cases”
May 4, 2018Throughout the nineteenth century, the Church and its leaders were regularly involved with federal and state law. The recent article by Professor Dallin H. Oaks[1] is a prudent, well researched attempt to deal with one…
Fools of Life | Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
May 4, 2018The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter has been published following the success of her long novel, Ship of Fools. None of the stories is new although she includes three “lost” stories and has finished…
By Study and By Faith | Frank B. Salisbury, Truth by Reason and by Revelation
May 4, 2018A survey of Latter-day Saint literature dealing with science and religion will reveal that, with few exceptions, biologists are poorly represented. All manner of other scientists and technologists, including chemists, physicists, geologists, agriculturalists, sociologists, medical…
Theology for a New Age | John A. T. Robinson, Honest to God
May 4, 2018The Church of England, the heir of a nineteen hundred year Christian tradition, has fallen upon evil days. At least such is the assessment of The Reverend Nicholas Stacey, Rector of Woolwich, in a recent…
Mormons in the Side Stream | Horton Davies, Christian Deviations: The Challenge of the New Spiritual Movements
May 4, 2018During the third week of January, 1966, millions of Americans united in prayer, beseeching God’s assistance in their quest for Christian unity. One of the leading advocates of this ecumenical movement is Horton Davies, Putnam…
The World and the Prophet | Robert Bruce Flanders, Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi
May 4, 2018Discussing religion in America, de Tocqueville once remarked that “religions ought . . . to confine themselves within their own precincts; for in seeking to extend their power beyond religious matters, they incur a risk…
Guilt
May 4, 2018I have no vulture sins, God,That overhang my sky, To climb, grey-feathering the air,And swoop carnivorously. It’s just the tiny sins, God, That from memory appear Like tedious buzzing flies to dartLike static through my prayer.
Death
May 4, 2018Death is the great forget, they said,A mindless, restful leaving Of all consciousness and careIn a vast unweaving. And so I waited, cramped and still,For approaching Death to bringForgetfulness—but all he broughtWas a huge remembering.