In the 1892–93 issue of The Folk-Lorist, a publication of the old Chicago Folk-Lore Society, the Reverend David Utter, from Salt Lake City, published a short piece entitled “Mormon Superstition.” He recounted Mormon beliefs about…
Ever since the homestead days, when you,
The eldest, baked the bread for barefoot boys
Flushed from the corn for lunch, the care we knew
Was testimony of your oaken poise.
In 1986 Deseret Book published an anthology of talks selected from BYU women’s conferences. That collection, Woman to Woman, as the title suggests, included talks exclusively by Church women. Now, a 1988 anthology includes both…
Leonard Arrington deserves to be honored. Nineteen of his professional associates, former employees, and friends have each contributed to this book a previously unpublished essay to thank a man who fostered their individual careers. Although Arrington’s…
There is a time-honored tradition in science fiction and fantasy of the “alternate universe” story, set in a time and place partially familiar to the reader but with carefully chosen differences. Philip K. Dick’s The…
Every once in a while you will see an image that stays with you for years. On 16 October 1985 I saw an image that will be with me a lifetime: a burned out sports…
Jack slowed down, looking for a sign. Seeing none, he sped on down the highway, grumbling to himself. Dean could have given more specific directions — or better, first-hand instructions, not this friend-of-a-friend nonsense. It…
My overwhelming first impression of Thomas G. Alexander’s “Historiography and the New Mormon History: A Historian’s Perspective” published in DIALOGUE (Fall 1986) is that the author, in the words of a character in a recent…
While the organist pumped
“Let Us All Press on in the Work of the Lord,”
and the chorister napped her arms
like a whooping crane, and some sat there
I wrote to my mission president for the last time almost two years ago during the final week of my mission. I think I expressed my love to him and my gratitude for the example…