[…] that he sees the fall of the sparrow and often interferes in the affairs of men in order to save his preferred children. Occasionally Larson’s religious ambivalence is so severe that the indifferent god […]
[…] In his own translation of John 1:1, Nibley illustrates how indispensible this concept was to the very order of things: “In the beginning was the Logos [counsel, discussion], and the Logos was in the […]
Progress implies change and for this writer the call to explore new opportunities has become more insistent in recent years. It will soon be ten years since this column appeared in the first issue […]
The flaws of Mormon fiction are many. But so are the possibilities.
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 […]
[…] four-room stone house built by his father in Round Valley, near Morgan, Utah. My great grandfather had a small farm there and a job on the Union Pacific Railroad, but in the spring of 1883…
Dialogue 10.1 (1975-1976): 84–86 Review of Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith coauthored by Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill regarding the trial of Joseph Smith and his […]
[…] Printed by F. G. Williams & Co. 1835 Following the title page was the following preface: In order to sing by the spirit, and with the understanding, it is necessary that the Church of […]
[…] so that many hymns are unintelligible at first sight, yielding exact meaning only after careful reading. In order to fit text to music, the translators often wrenched the syntax terribly. For example, the meaning […]
[…] and taped in November and broadcast on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. The 1974 performance was heard over 1750 stations throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the South Pacific and […]