Brattle Street Elegy: Buildings
March 18, 2018[…] each bringing a couple of vegetables. We had a vague idea we’d make a spoof of CNN News, calling it VNN News, the Vegetable Network News. We thought up skits on the spot. One […]
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Two Modes of Political Engagement
March 17, 2018[…] another consequence: They reinforce a sense of distinction and separation between the Christian community and the secular world. This attitude, however, leads to a retreat from the world, from political engagement, and from democratic […]
Loving Truthfully | Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate
March 16, 2018[…] encyclical letter, is a striking beginning for his papal contribution to Catholic social teaching. In a sense, the encyclical confirms one piece of conventional wisdom about his papacy—that it is a work of consolidating […]
René Girard and Mormon Scripture: A Response
March 16, 2018This short piece responds to Mack C. Stirling’s article, “Violence in the Scriptures: Mormonism and the Cultural Theory of René Girard,” 43, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 59–105. I offer a counter-interpretation of what I […]
Fish Stories
March 16, 2018[…] bask in the reflected achievements of her husband and sons. Their job was to perform on the world’s stage; her job was to sell popcorn, pom-poms, and programs and cheer loudly from the stands. […]
Part of a Bigger Story | Craig H. Harline, Conversions: Two family stories from the Reformation and Modern America
March 16, 2018[…] broadest general readership” to “speak to deeply human concerns about the past, present, and future of our world and its people” (ii). This Harline certainly does. He is eager to make the past as relevant […]
Association of Mormon Letters Conference | “For All Things Must Fail”: A Post-Structural Approach to the Book of Mormon
March 16, 2018[…] 2013):138–177 In this paper, I argue that this preoccupation with structural collapse legitimizes a critical consideration of the way that language functions in the book, rendering the Book of Mormon particularly well-suited to a […]
To the Edges of Modern Life | Hugh J. Cannon, To the Peripheries of Mormondom, Edited by Reid Neilson
March 16, 2018On December 4, 1920, apostles David O. McKay and Hugh J. Cannon set off on an around-the– world journey to visit every mission in the world and some of the most isolated congregations of […]
The Past and Future Boundaries of Mormon Studies | Quincy D. Newell and Eric F. Mason, eds., New Perspectives in Mormon Studies: Creating and Crossing Boundaries
March 15, 2018[…] and one that has evaded past economic analysis, is the extent to which Smith domesticated the economic world: “Smith’s emphasis is on household rather than management, which is why it looks like he is […]
Acute Distress, Intensive Care
March 14, 2018[…] his eyes ask. “Can she hear us?” “Perhaps on some level,” the doctor says in precisely enunciated English. “She is agitated.” “Maybe it’s nicotine withdrawal,” Carma offers. “She smokes a pack or two a […]