Sally Didn’t Sleep Here
March 26, 2018[…] I get up and grade papers, but it’s hard to be charitable when everyone in the whole world is asleep but me. I ought to attack the furnace room. The way we keep the […]
[…] I get up and grade papers, but it’s hard to be charitable when everyone in the whole world is asleep but me. I ought to attack the furnace room. The way we keep the […]
[…] because I find this sentiment blasphemous and partly because I ironically find myself somehow envying the simplistic world in which people who believe such things live. To think that God would bless us for […]
[…] after the rejection at the door. Throughout the poem these two adore one another and the sensuous world in which they find themselves. Throughout the poem they take turns as pursuer; longing leads to […]
Dialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 61–64 Over the past forty years the top leadership of the Community of Christ church (until recently the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ o f Latter -Day Saints) has gone […]
[…] volunteered at homeless shelters and had graduate-school pro jects that would save the whales or maybe the world. We stayed friends with those who gave up on the Church as too repressive, provincial, non-intellectual, […]
[…] says, ‘Man, everybody at BYU’s a hypocrite. They think they’re more righteous than the rest of the world. They sit there and read and memorize these obscure Church doctrines and ignore what’s really going […]
[…] remarkable book. Sixty years ago Knopf published Fawn Brodie’s No Man Knows My History, a biography of the Mormon prophet by a disaffected Mormon who, according to her own biographer, had already decided before […]
[…] your heart and make you feel alive all over again. You believe in literature with a soul— the book that makes you think, that makes you feel as though you’ve been somewhere and experienced […]
John W. Welch’s CV is enough to trigger fatigue in even the most prolific of scholars. As founding director of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS), Welch introduced a new generation […]
More than half a century ago, sociologist Thomas O’Dea said the following about the university student who is a Latter-day Saint: “He has been taught by the Mormon faith to seek knowledge and to […]