The Closet Bluebird
April 25, 2018[…] up in Provo, I never questioned exhortations from the pulpit to remain unspotted from the wicked outside world, to be in but not part of its iniquities and abominations. I was fully aware of […]
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Hope for the Human Conditions | Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird
April 25, 2018[…] in a game from which he had thought he was protected by the grandfather clause.” Joe Allston’s search for his roots becomes a search for the meaning of his life. This search entails a […]
Road to Damascus
April 25, 2018[…] breath rasped, and for an instant he thought that he too was on the brink of that world where spirits whisper and wait. “I’m sorry, Regina,” he said. “You cried on the day we […]
Confessions of a Suburban Househusband
April 25, 2018[…] I was doing in order to give them a full debriefing after their foray into the outside world. While this was going on, I collected handfuls of paintings, demands for school fees, notes from […]
A Mormon and a Prophet | Sidney Hyman, Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur and Public Servant
April 24, 2018“Marriner Eccles was American economic history,” says G. L. Bach in the foreword to this enlightening biography. Eccles’ life was an “extraordinary encapsulation in one man of the explosive changes” in business and government […]
A New Climate of Liberation: A Tribute to Fawn McKay Brodie, 1915-1981
April 21, 2018[…] competent historians must and do expect criticism. They should welcome it, as it is essential to their search for the truth about what happened and why it happened. But competent criticism is one thing, […]
The Quilt
April 19, 2018[…] was thin and flat as wallpaper. Parley was her brother. Sarah knew he had died in either World War I or World War II—she couldn’t remember which. “It’s okay, Gran,” Sarah said. “Go back […]
Responsible Apologetics | Noel B. Reynolds, ed., Book of Mormon Authorship: New Light on Ancient Origins
April 19, 2018[…] Ancient Book,” is inconclusive (pp. 76-94). Griggs correctly observes that “the assumption that any parallels from the world of Joseph Smith, real or imagined, are sufficient to discredit the authenticity of the work is […]
The Intellectual in the Service of the Faith?: The Pursuit of Understanding
April 18, 2018A useful beginning for my comments may be found in a quotation from Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-intellectualism in American Life.
An Echo from the Foothills: To Marshal the Forces of Reason
April 17, 2018[…] redress? Do I contribute to unfortunate tensions with others in the family of Judeo-Christian religions and other world religions by not expressing my own very positive view of ecumenical cooperation? Do we all passively […]