[…] for losing the spirit and leaving the church. Nevertheless, the main point of this essay is to call attention to other factors that undermine testimonies, sap endurance, and weaken resistance to temptation. These factors […]
[…] Times Book Review article, African-American literary theorist and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr., used the bizarre case of The Education of Little Tree to reexamine the issues of “identity” and “authenticity” in literary studies.
[…] to ac knowledge and honor the pioneer women who paved the way for many of us who now live in the state of Utah. Quilts and Women of the Mormon Migrations: Treasures of Transition. […]
[…] was in my early teens—it seems like I was no older than fourteen—I received a special gift from my grandparents. They knew I liked to read. In fact, they knew that I read a […]
[…] of progress as the notion that mankind has advanced in the past from barbarism and ignorance, is now advancing, and will continue to advance through the foreseeable future. It is arguably the central motivating […]
[…] that science and religion are not incompatible. The contention is that science and religion can be made to co-exist by compartmentalization, that is, by carefully limiting the scope of each so that neither intrudeson […]
The history of empires and nation-states is often a chronicle of wars, as this sprinkling of names clearly evokes: Ghengis Khan, Attila the Hun, Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, William T. Sherman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, […]
[…] I don’t know who I am. I have nowhere to turn in the end, no place to call home.” His ribs were aching bitterly beneath their bandages, several of them fractured two weeks earlier […]
With the Utah War’s sesquicentennial commemoration now underway, it is appropriate to reexamine that campaign’s origins, conduct, significance, and historiography. This article’s purpose is to stimulate such probing. I hope to do so through […]
<i>Dialogue 44.4 (Winter 2011): 106–141</i><br> From Editor Taylor Petrey: “Toward a Post-heterosexual Mormon Theology” was actually the first major article I ever published. I did not know what to expect, but it ended up […]