[…] discs, their cases held together with a rubber band, each marked La Pietà, 1/21/01 in permanent marker. The recording itself is perfectly legal; I arranged for it with an ebullient phone contact at NPR’s […]
In The American Religion, critic Harold Bloom begins his analysis of Mormonism with this well-known prophesy about the future of Mormon literature: A major American poet, perhaps one called a Gentile by the Latter-day […]
[…] by the emerging forms of the novel and capital-A Art, the first person arrived in the modern world with a chip on his shoulder, itching for a fight with authority, institution, and tradition. The […]
Becca was taking too long. Emma huddled against the iron fencepost and hugged her knees. The chilly breeze had dried her tears, but her nose was still running. She wiped it with the back […]
David Conley Nelson’s Moroni and the Swastika, although based on the author’s doctoral dissertation, is not at heart a scholarly book. It is, rather, a polemical work dressed up in academic regalia. While its […]
I read the Qur’an often because it speaks peace to my soul.
[…] much more, to speak about the idea of the church being the fastest growing church in the world. From the Miller Eccles website: Chances are we’ve all heard someone say, “We are the fastest […]
[…] came to mind as I read three recent poetry collections by Latter-day Saint authors—Brighter and Brighter Until the Perfect Day by Sharlee Mullins Glenn, We Wore Dresses by Marilyn Bushman-Carlton, and Experiments in the […]
[…] Am I truly myself with others? Along with rootedness, what am I reaching for? What type of world am I wanting to help perpetuate? What communities am I a part of, since it is […]
[…] Jaredite “curelom” was, and that could be why we see non-translateable terms alone in Ether. In the new world, liquor made from a type of cactus, which we would call tequila today, was called by […]