[…] are held in reserve for the latter times. In God’s name and by his help we will build up a literature whose top shall touch heaven, though its foundation may now be low on earth.
[…] adding episodes missed by Butch’s sister. While many LDS biographies may not merit 250 pages, few suffer from being too long; instead we have too many sketches. Governor Jerry Brown to the contrary, more […]
[…] Period I. The book went to press. Shortly before it was put on sale, I received a call to tour the mission, and I was gone for three months or so. When I returned […]
[…] book the first time, I encountered one of the most serious problems with “factionized” scripture. My thoughts continually wandered from the story as I tried to recall Book of Mormon characters, events and places from my memories of […]
[…] novel” and “Mormon novelist” mean? Maybe in the first place we are incautious not to separate novel from novelist. Suppose a “Mormon novelist” in a quite strenuous sense: nominally and actively Mormon, a baptized […]
The sensibility described by Amy Lowell—that there is something odd about women who write serious poetry—is still given substance today by the endangered state of the species. Even I will not waste time […]
[…] shed new light on the question of who wrote Isaiah. Although the single authorship of Isaiah is now almost universally rejected, Mormons have a special insight (or problem) on this issue. The Book of […]
[…] a sense, it has died; or, in a manner of speaking, it slumbers. Consequently, that which we call our lives is a kind of fitful sleep or stumbling sleepwalking. The few who have the […]
[…] inner subjective calling felt by the individual and confirmed in the same way by his congregation. Lutherans call it the priesthood of all believers. The Catholic Church is an exception, claiming divine authority through […]
[…] Rich, an apostle and the Church’s representative on the West Coast, visited them. He had come to call several of the miners, including Henry Bigler, on proselyting missions to the Sandwich Islands. Bigler’s dream […]