The Happiness Bird
May 4, 2018“Hefner,” I says. “Your own daughter lies dead still so still (not a breath of the autumn ruffles her lips) and you aimin’ to go on out huntin’ like a fool.” Hefner turns from lacing…
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Toward a Positive Censorship
May 4, 2018The argument over censorship and pornography is necessarily a muddled one. The factors involved are matters of taste and principle which do not lend themselves to simple logical treatment. The matters of taste concern aesthetic…
Controlling Pornography: The Scientific and Moral Issues
May 4, 2018Contrast the following: The saturation of our civilization with obscenity and pornography shackles and enslaves to lust and depravity. It is necessary to slip these surly bonds. This means it is necessary for each person in…
Obscenity and the Inspired Constitution: A Dilemma for Mormons
May 4, 2018One of the most prominent tenets of Mormonism emphasizes moral purity as essential to the Christian life. Self-mastery over physical appetites and passions is regarded as a fundamental aspect of the doctrine of eternal progression;…
The Coalville Tabernacle: A Photographic Essay
May 4, 2018Sometime late in January or early February, winter’s dregs and the rancid crackers of academic routine begin to yield singularly stale sop. During those scraps of days in 1966 both of us turned our mental…
Translating Mormon Thought
May 4, 2018Most of our distinctly Mormon heritage, scriptural and otherwise, has been first spoken, recorded, or translated in the English language. In declaring that this heritage has worth for people of cultures and languages different from…
Mormon Attitudes Toward the Political Roles of Church Leaders
May 4, 2018During the 1960 presidential election campaign both candidates—Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice-President Richard M. Nixon—made appearances in Salt Lake City. Each was greeted cordially by David O. McKay, President of the Church of Jesus…
Peculiar People, Positive Thinkers, and the Prospect of Mormon Literature
May 4, 2018As a Mormon writer, I have long been concerned that most of the books and magazine articles published nationally about the Mormons are written by Jews and Gentiles rather than my own people. In show…
A Defensive Role at School
May 4, 2018I will not hesitate to say that before I entered Stanford University, I heard the Stanford Student Ward described as dangerous and heretical, and I was told to protect myself. I think that my superiors…
A Voice Against the War
May 4, 2018Playing with my three-year-old son the other evening, I heard the broadcast announcing new record American deaths and casualties in Viet Nam. For the first time I realized with a chill that should the world…