What Beatrice said of Dante might well apply to Susan Elizabeth Howe’s latest collection of poetry, titled Salt. The observation was fictional, served up in an obscure but brilliant nineteenth-century book, Classical Conversations by […]
[…] asked if I would speak at her Stake Standards Night. Sophie (whom her mother and I used to call “the Queen of the World” when she was a child) made one request: my talk […]
[…] in Vermont, not New York, and the temple in Ohio was never used for marriage sealings ( 6); Martha Heywood was the third, not second, wife of Joseph Heywood (34, photo); and an Illinois […]
[…] meaningfully at Malcolm. Uinta Grocery and Sport was still open . . . if anyone needed to buy a particular something. And maybe some ammo. After his wife slumped snoring against his shoulder, Jake […]
[…] in the name of the biggest annual fiction awards for Mormon writers and in regular online arguments over the prospects for Mormon Literature. More often than not, unfortunately, Elder Whitney’s phrasing ends up being […]
[…] out (more convalescing), and decided to move to Hawaii. Plans for the house we were going to buy fell through, and the thermostat in the house we lived in broke and kept randomly getting […]
[…] her faith is a necessary part of me, and the humility at the core of Christianity argues for a return. The recent fire, destruction, and transformation of the Provo Tabernacle as a temple have […]
Recently, Dialogue asked Susanna Morrill, associate professor of religious studies at Lewis and Clark College, to moderate a discussion between Robert Orsi and Richard Lyman Bushman, then chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University.
[…] then president of the LDS Church and less than three years away from his own death, spoke to a group of people in the Eleventh Ward meetinghouse in Salt Lake City. The past was […]
[…] Spencer W. Kimball was our Church’s first Indian president. An Arizona desert-raised son of a missionary to over twenty nations of Native Americans— “Lamanites,” in Mormon parlance—Kimball focused his vision on these indigenous peoples […]