It may well be true, as Arnold H. Green, professor of Near Eastern history at American University (Cairo), pointed out at a conference devoted to Mormons and Muslims in October 1981, that Protestants like to…
After the Latter-day Saints began building Zion in the Great Basin it was natural to celebrate crossing the plains as pioneers. Succeeding generations of land lubbers have been less inclined to remember a similarly pivotal…
In the fall 1983 column, we surmised that Merlo Pusey’s history of the George A. Smiths represented, by virtue of its flavor, a respectable and even successful attempt at “family-authorized” biography. Subsequently, a missive from…
Each year the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints receives several hundred thousand column inches of space in national and local newspaper. News items range from the local LDS missionaries in the community to…
Waking from my loud dream
I hear only what is here:
the cornered stars rattling in glass
and the slow roll of a drumhead moon.
we will dream now of a cave
with a figure at the entrance,
see the magic seeds she holds
They dream of going hack.
The bars on their beds
are fingers before a face.
Their knees rise up toward chins
The process is as invariable and explicable as the engineered logic of a machine. Yet for all its biological transparence, to Roger Talmage, educated, institutionally devout, and forty-two, the quite ordinary adjustment of his eyes…
A few months ago we were saddened to learn that Asael Carlyle I Lambert had passed away. He was ninety years old and living in Los Angeles. Dr. Lambert was one of the giants to…
Dialogue 17.1 (Spring 1984): 106–112
To be a Mormon — in the generic use of that term — is an attitude: an attitude of uniqueness — of peculiarity — • which makes itself known in behavior, in beliefs, in relationships, in inquiries and, most of all, in religious expression.