[…] lethal. The penultimate line, the cliche “be good to your kids, there’s nothing like ’em in the world, believe me” has never sounded so sinister. The middle playlet, A Gaggle of Saints, involves John […]
[…] ear. To me, the movie screen, the city lights, and the transistor were parts of the same world—distant, mysterious, exciting. I would listen to the music and make up movies in my head about […]
“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 […]
[…] while Mormons believe the obvious other—that they are three beings, and that Joseph Smith has corrected the world on that point. The underlying tone was: “Silly them.” Scriptures that supported the Mormon view were […]
[…] as I developed this essay—first, that of a dialectical assertion with its thesis, antithesis, and subsequent synthesis. The second analogy, more visual, is of a triptych, with two opposing side panels and finally a […]
I am a lover of legends, a spinner of tales. Pepper your preaching with anecdotes if you want my attention. Punctuate your sermons with parables, your homilies with flesh and blood, your lessons with people […]
[…] after back surgery and a life of addiction. He was forty-nine. His death was hard enough, but the ensuing drama with my mother and sister—the last of my immediate family—widened the rift between us […]
What is an adequate label for the areas outside of the so-called “Church’s center”? If it pertains to non-US countries, “international” is commonly used, but semantically it is flawed because the United States itself […]
[…] Emma. This nearly decade-long project which required deep research in primary sources, launched the authors into the world of Mormon Studies. Through papers and conferences, Linda and Val became known within a growing scholarly […]
[…] about growing up as a child to Japanese American immigrants who met in the internment camps during World War II. Born on a farm in rural southern Utah (“in order to be far from […]