If Matthew Babcock’s Four Tales of Troubled Love is about something, it is about private worlds; the reconciliation of self and other; the reckoning of what two people are with each other, without each […]
Charles Dickens suggests that epochs roll into one another in a cyclical pattern. Each cycle comprises the pairing of opposites: wisdom and foolishness, belief and incredulity, Light and Darkness, virtue and vice, hope and […]
Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 201–208 “What can we do to help and make a difference in the fight for racial and social justice?” McCoy responds to the BYU students who asked these questions which […]
In her diary entry for March 20, 1848, Patty Bartlett Sessions (1795–1892) recorded an unusual note: she had begun to work on her sewing sampler, an item she had not touched for thirty-eight […]
At the conclusion of each Mormon History Association’s annual conference, there is a “devotional.” (Until I became a devotee of Mormon history, devotional was always an adjective, as in “devotional literature,” but the Latter-day […]
[…] The author’s suggestion that the Book of Mormon is a religious declaration of independence from the Old World similar to many contemporary declarations of independence such as Emerson’s “American Scholar” intrigues me. While I […]
[…] them. At one point Clark states, rather offhandedly, that it is “hardly mere accident that the western world’s two great ages of drama grew, independently, out of religious ritual.” Indeed they did, but in […]
[…] art school. The dreams for the future grew and grew until some pictured the area becoming a world art center with positive new kinds of art supercede “Pop,” “Op,” “auto-destructive art,” and what-not. Among […]
[…] regeneration of man. A solution of this conflict is possible in our historical era only if the world accepts the gospel, otherwise it must wait until the establishment of the Kingdom of God. Attempts […]
[…] their marital vows “. . . shall be of full force when they are out of the world; and they shall pass by the angels and the gods which are set there, to their […]