[…] even preside over some type of Mormon ecumenical council composed of intellectuals within the Church. Then the world would be treated to the spectacle of Mormons debating basic principles in the vain attempt to […]
[…] redefine their roles; in society, where they now exercise some key leadership roles; in the greater global world, where they explore the accomplishments of women in different societies; in the artistic world, where Exponent […]
Spring 1911. Seated in her parlor on the farm they lease, Bertha Hansen shivers as she slips her needle through beige linen. Heinrich has booked a trip to Germany, a visit home, but as […]
[…] a scene then while somersaulting off a roof (8). Eve laments the “delicious bite” that invoked the world in which she finds Abel dead (11). The poet imagines pausing the world, halting people in […]
[…] treated it so reverently that Greg and Travis decided they had the best camping stuff in the world, and it must be important, because they didn’t have anything else like that. They stored it […]
I was born an artist—I see this more clearly now. Yes, I am a painter, but that is only one of the mediums I use to make art.
The famous couplet coined by Lorenzo Snow in 1840, “As man now is, God once was: As God now is, man may be,”rears its head every now and then, inspiring both awe and […]
I grew up in an anti-Catholic world. The first thing I remember hearing about Catholics in the small town in which I was raised was not just negative, it was extremely so. Everyone I […]
[…] That arch-villain Brigham Young, they would say, foisted the image of a temporal-minded Joseph Smith upon the world. Brigham put into the mouth of a Joseph unavailable to defend himself doctrines which the Utah […]
[…] earnest Christians who did not know or appreciate the fact that there were other Christians in the world stuck with me for years. In opposition to this conviction, however, there persisted the possibility in […]