It is difficult not to like Leonard Arrington. By all accounts, he was an exceptionally generous and decent man. His Great Basin Kingdom was a kind of Big Bang of Mormon historiography, doing more […]
[…] but mostly unfamiliar with the growing body of Joseph Smith scholarship. As a result, I am unable to reference that tradition in this review or to argue how these essays augment or contrast with […]
Six cars pulled through the intersection, one after the other over the course of an hour, but none of them was hers. Barefoot, Bart waited on the slat bench outside his front door, picking […]
[…] a bard, a creator of tales with himself at the center. Countless times, he had leapt effortlessly over a house or curled his body into a circle and rolled down a hill with the […]
[…] French Language, Literature, and Civilization at Stanford University, at Girard’s home in Palo Alto, California, on April 3–4, 2009. Stirling: We would appreciate it if you would tell us a little bit about your […]
Michael Slade has been photographing all over the world for the past twenty years. A Cache Valley native, Slade received his B.A. degree in photography from Utah State University (1994) and is currently an […]
Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2013):188–206 The scripture I have in mind, of course, is the Book of Mormon. What follows is a Gentile’s appreciation—even recommendation—of this well-known but largely unread example of worldclass scripture.
Polygamy and blood atonement, whatever their real-world drawbacks, can make for profitable novels. If Zane Grey were still alive, he might be plotting another sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage in hopes of […]
[…] something was up. “Congratulations,” he said, “your church has just entered its Renaissance period.” I was used to seeing him walk into Furman Hall on Ash Wednesdays with a gray streak on his forehead, […]
Dialogue 43.2 (Fall 2010): 45–63 Mormon women weren’t passive recipients of the new feminism. We helped to create it.