[…] all this fantasizing about whitebread movie stars. I don’t think God really wants us to lie in order to make people think we’re “normal,” but Mormon culture sure expects us to. It’s not like […]
[…] using the standing urinal, not realizing that one did not have to pull down one’s pants in order to use it, though the people waiting in line may have understood that principle. But that […]
[…] take precedence over sources composed later on (48). Applying these standards, Ashurst-McGee analyzes primary sources in chronological order. Huggins, in contrast, ignores these standards and misses key documents. A prime example is the Willard […]
[…] of them, living so close together. “Hey!” one of the boys yells. “She’s here!” They all run over to Mary, stop a couple yards away. One light-haired ambassador continues closer. He is wearing smears […]
[…] the justice of God; for it is requisite that all things should be restored to their proper order. . . . And it is requisite with the justice of God that men should be […]
[…] through a twenty-first-century lens. The unsigned introduction, presumably written by the editors for this printing, flops all over itself to establish a Mormon context for Evans, while his manuscript makes but two mentions of […]
[…] sometimes succeed but often fail. He noted, however, that artists must be put in such circumstances in order to flourish. It seems to me that the LDS artists whom I know are willing to […]
I well remember the spring and summer of 1965 when Gene England, Wesley Johnson, Paul Salisbury, Joseph Jeppson, and I got together to explore the idea of an unofficial Mormon publication. There were lively […]
[…] up at Stanford, met Gene England and my other founding colleagues, how we developed a new publication over a six-year period (including our many trials and tribulations), the reaction to this enterprise, and how […]
In the introduction to his epic short story, “A River Runs Through It,” Norman Maclean wrote that his primary aim was to let his “children know what kind of people their parents are or […]