Dialogue 51.4 (Winter 2018): 49–76
What of the Latter Day Saint movement that claimed to prophetically discern the times and seasons of these latter days and also boldly proclaimed that they were the restoration church?
My assigned topic is “Ministering with the Power and Authority of God.” It’s a daunting topic, and one that requires a preliminary confession: when I hear the word “minister,” my most immediate and strongest association is with the Monty Python sketch about the Ministry of Silly Walks, so it has been good for me to research this topic and find some other associations to go with the word. We’ll get to etymology in a minute, but first a story from the scriptures—or, uh, from the New Yorker.
I was born an artist—I see this more clearly now. Yes, I am a painter, but that is only one of the mediums I use to make art.
Can there be too many studies of Mormon plural marriage? As one interested in the topic for the better part of the past three-plus decades, and who acknowledges the plethora of works that grapple with…
The trouble with reviewing a book like Keira Shae’s debut memoir How the Light Gets In is the reviewer finds himself in the position of assessing an account of suffering and survival, and in the…
Served: A Missionary Comics Anthology features short graphic vignettes about the contributors’ experiences as LDS missionaries. It is the culmination of author Mike Laughead’s and editor Theric Jepsen’s Kickstarter campaign, which received $24,902 from 419 backers in thirty days. When backers receive their copies they will encounter a variety of short graphic narratives that are simultaneously varied in their visual approaches and bound together by major themes.
Kail Lambert, the protagonist in Jack Harrell’s new novel Caldera Ridge, stands in the front room of the small, older home he and his wife Charlene have bought in rural southeast Idaho. While Charlene works…
Don’t let the book cover’s scandalous bare navel dissuade you. Deja Earley’s poetry collection, To the Mormon Newlyweds Who Thought the Bellybutton Was Somehow Involved, is well worth your time as she navigates the truths…
“Joseph Paul Vorst was arguably the most culturally significant Latter-day Saint painter of his time.”So, starts the Church History Museum’s video for the exhibition on the life and works of Joseph Paul Vorst (1897–1947). The video and the exhibition is a joint collaboration between the museum’s curator, Laura Allred Hurtado, and the independent writer Glen Nelson, who authored a catalogue detailing the life and known works of the German-American artist. Both exhibition and catalogue seek to rehabilitate the reputation of an artist that has largely been overlooked. Vorst’s life is beautifully evoked and contextualized on every page by Nelson, who raises questions about conventional definitions of what it means to be a Mormon artist.