[…] composition and workmanship are consistent with the facilities of an 1843 blacksmith shop and with the fraud stories of the original participants,” states Dr. Lawrence, and he concludes that the inscriptions almost certainly were […]
[…] to come to agreement about the relationship between the life of the LDS people in this country and American lifeways. The views of outside observers range all the way from supposing that Mormonism “has […]
As an epigraph to their anthology A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints, Richard Cracroft and Neal Lambert quote Orson F. Whitney’s 1888 Contributor essay, “Home Literature”: We shall yet have Miltons and […]
[…] in the larger American culture but within a different time frame. Much of the friction between Mormons and Gentiles was a result of the fact that the two metamorphoses were out of phase. In […]
The following is excerpted from a longer interview conducted by Shirley E. Stephenson as part of the Oral History Program at California State University at Fullerton, November 30, 1975.
[…] Society, 1957), pp. 1-8. Dorothy O. Rea, “Church Sponsors Film ‘Search for Truth’ on Science, Religion,” Church News, 23 Dec. 1961, pp. 4, 7, 8. See also Henry Eyring “Our Five Worlds,” The Instructor […]
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 […]
[…] 1974 article published in Science identified the Mormon culture as an unusually productive source of American scientists and scholars, an achievement linked to such distinctive tenets of Mormon theology as rationalism, natural law, and […]
<i>Dialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 197–230</i><br>I am astonished that it took so many readings and a focus on the question of using gender-inclusive language in the simplified version to discover something that should have been […]
[…] at the End of Summer,” has stayed with me all those intervening years, shaping both my readerly and writerly consciousness with its heartbreaking grace. In order to address what I take to be a […]