D. Jeff Burton, Tolerance for “Cultural Mormons” Gerry L. Ensley, Joseph, Peepstones, and Pirates Dan Vogel, Serving Two Masters Gary James Bergera, Civility, Compassion, Honesty Richard L. Bushman, Fair-Minded People Sarah Barringer Gordon, Jana […]
[…] at the same time, Jeff maintains that these people are genuine, and the Marxist in me doesn’t buy it. The problem is that, when you get down to brass tacks, the Lowerys are completely […]
[…] variety), revelation, hierarchy, etc.; the working definition offered is “rules that controlled and governed the universe” ( 6). Conceived as a dialectic, relations and principles nuance a number of LDS categories. Regarding theological anthropology: […]
[…] When I married Kyle, I even wondered if she was jealous. Kyle’s latest romantic gesture was to buy us two one-way tickets to Australia. A few weeks after I had Stella, he came bursting […]
[…] ungrounded. I spin course by stars I cannot see and trust in winds I do not control. Over the green I soar, in accord with a finely drawn yet constantly changing map in my […]
Looking out of my window across my lawn, I see a red toy wheelbarrow tipped over, abandoned beside the sidewalk. Its redness is something I experience distinctly. Undeniably, I might be deceived, and there […]
[…] always agree with its arguments. In it, BYU German professor Alan Keele mines German literature and drama for what he calls the supernal: specifically, for narratives that echo LDS concepts of preexistence, eternal marriage […]
Driving from Hollister to Santa Cruz late morning, I stop at San Juan Bautista to grab a sandwich. All the signs point toward the Mission, so I keep driving. Brown-skinned Mexican kids swirl around […]
[…] be normal?” he scrawled in rough but legible script, “Why should I be Dick and not Tito?” 6. I’m remembering a comment of John Gardner, a now-retired BYU physics professor who said to me […]
[…] human speech and writing reflect humankind’s “lost and fallen state” and is therefore fallible (1 Ne. 10: 6). In such passages, language itself becomes an important feature of the encumbering web of confusion and […]