Grey Matters
April 19, 2018Last fall a new publication appeared at Brigham Young University, “an independent student weekly,” The Seventh East Press. Its first stated reason for going into business was that “[t]here is no publication that puts in…
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The Quilt
April 19, 2018The quilt had been magnificent once. Passed down through the years like a sacrament between mother and daughter, it had been made by Sarah’s great grandmother and her friends—all of them from Manchester. On long…
The Rabbit Drive
April 19, 2018They were of the old people, two sisters
With their measured tones and gunny sack
Of nickels, dimes, and quarters
To take out and polish when they met,
That Men Might Be
April 19, 2018Where she walked,
Trees were quiet with the leisure of monkeys,
And the dew on the leaves seemed forever.
An “Inside-Outsider” in Zion
April 19, 2018At the invitation of Sunstone, I sat down a couple of years ago to write a book review of Samuel Woolley Taylor’s Rocky Mountain Empire. As did Topsy, that review just grew and grew until…
LDS Approaches to the Holy Bible
April 19, 2018Davis Bitton, writing in 1966, noted that “there is no reliable study of Mormon exegesis. .. . I can think of no single area of exploration which promises to be so fruitful in understanding the…
Discussion Continued: The Sequel to the Roberts/Smith/Talmage Affair
April 19, 2018Few chapters in twentieth-century Mormon thought are more thought-pro voking than the events following B. H. Roberts’ efforts to publish what he considered his greatest work, that synthesis of science and religion, The Truth, the…
The Idea of Pre-Existence in the Development of Mormon Thought
April 19, 2018The Mormon belief that the individual spirit of man existed in the presence of God before the creation of the world is unique in modern Christianity. Mormons have rejected the Creator/creature dichotomy of Patristic theology…
The Adam-God Doctrine
April 19, 2018On April 9, 1852, Brigham Young rose once again to address a session of general conference. He intended to preach several discourses, he said, and as the Deseret News observed the following week, “the Holy Ghost [rested] upon [him] in great power, while he revealed some of the precious things of the kingdom.”
Nothing New Under the Sun | Ann Terry, Marilyn Slaght-Griffin, and Elizabeth Terry, Mormons & Women
April 19, 2018I admit an acquired skepticism about books with pretentious titles, so my eyes narrowed at the sight of a slim volume with the weighty title Mor mons & Women. I became even more suspicious when…