The Culture of Narcissism is the product of an American historian who has borrowed a psychiatric syndrome to examine issues and to synthesize a picture of our culture. Narcissism, an ancient term with roots in…
Most Mormons, in fact Christians in general, would avoid reading a book on Marx ism. Any mutually acceptable alliance has always been scuttled by equally mutual suspicion between Marxists and Christians. Carrying on the tradition…
A silo collapsed and buried my brother in-law under tons of grain. At his funeral, a speaker offered comfort by saying that God “had need of Leon on the other side.” One of Leon’s young…
For once the language of bookhype might ring true: the publication of Levi Peterson’s Canyons of Grace as one of the four volumes this year in the Illinois Short Fiction Series can be called “a…
If we are to believe what we see before us, we must conclude that authors interested in writing and selling books about Mormonism have boundless opportunities. Although most of the newly released volumes are modest…
We probe and scrape and peel away the faded
Multicolored layers of a lifetime,
Like Schliemann
(Who ? Grandmother asks)
Marsha crumpled the letter into a ball and hurled it across the living room. It caromed off the TV screen and rolled a few feet before settling in the middle of the carpet. Once again…
In August 1967, I delivered a sermon in the Palo Alto Ward entitled “What the Church Means to People like Me.” DIALOGUE published it that winter and the Saints’ Herald reprinted it the following year.…
I suspect you’re less interested in such talk than Shakespeare and I. I’m twenty years closer to death than most of you, and poor Will is centuries gone. But you’re closer than you think. And it may be that all of us would do well to get, in some ways, closer still. For a people who manage to watch 251 murders a year on TV, we Americans—and more especially we Mormons—give death short shrift.
As I kneel to
needlepoint nice words
in quiet
careful