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 […]
When philosopher Alastair MacIntyre came striding into my Vanderbilt University office brandishing the New York Times in October of 1985, I knew something was up. “Congratulations,” he said, “your church has just entered its […]
[…] find it. It is difficult finding the Church in China. Though it is established all over the world in every country where the government will allow us, Chinese regulations regarding the Church are very […]
[…] invites comparison to Terryl L. Givens’s By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)—although that work is a history of the book’s recep […]
I’m Lila, a heat-drugged woman announces, edging her weight out of an overstuffed room into the hall. How can I help you? I explain we are his family. She says she is sorry. He […]
The scriptures include many references to creative women. Han nah and Dorcas created treasured textiles (1 Samuel 2:19; Acts 9:39), but we don’t know what those garments looked like. Sarah created memorable meals […]
In 1971, African-American artist Gil Scott-Heron released a powerful political anthem called “ The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” Forty years later, in Tahrir Square and Occupy Wall Street, the revolution was not only […]
[…] as big as cars, lay black and cold, nearly invisible. Having searched since the beginning of the world, this devil found the man in a clapboard house on the edge of an Idaho town […]
One of the joys of being married to my late wife Ruth is that she opened the world of sacred music to me. I had grown up in a culturally deprived home, with no […]
Families Are Forever is a short film about a Latter-day Saint family, the Montgomerys, living in central California who have a gay son who came of age during Proposition 8, the California initiative to affirm […]