[…] literary nonfiction. It is very important, however, that they try. To have a sense of the future of Mormon literature, it is vital that we see how present writings articulate with traditions from the past.
[…] secular.” While a recent scholar terms the Revolutionary era one of religious “desuetude,” no one today would call it irreligious. Even the Deists acknowledged the existence of God and a prevailing morality in the […]
[…] during the Civil Rights Movement when people both inside and outside the Church were harshly critcizing the priesthood ban. When the world was changing, it looked like the Church was still adherring to the past.
[…] be well now.” Silently Max watched mother and daughter step out into the rain, too stunned to call them back to clarify the blessing, the stipulations, the no guarantee clauses. She ignored the fine […]
[…] Jack was six inches shorter and thirty pounds heavier, every ounce rock solid. “Orangutan,” they used to call him in high school, as much for the ungainly length of his arms as the red […]
[…] away someone brings up, “Well, you know that individual doesn’t pay income tax.” They don’t get a call in the Church. If people continue to do these things after they’ve been counseled, they get […]
“John Durham Peters may well be the most original thinker in the broad field of communication and media studies in the United States.” So claims Michael Schudson, professor of communication at the University of […]
[…] with the painting that he asked Eddington to paint the large nine-feet high and six-and-a-half-feet wide version now hanging on the north wall of the Legacy Theater in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. Eddington’s […]
[…] Even a casual reading of the Book of Abraham shows that the story refers not so much to unique historic events as to ritual forms and traditions—all these must be checked. So far we […]
[…] that year that the Quorum of Twelve had elected the mayor. It may have been true. No call to priesthood office or major quorum functioning has been turned down at a World Conference in […]