[…] director shunned them.[6] *** When J. Edgar Hoover became the nation’s sixth FBI director in 1924, the world was mired in political and social upheaval. Only a few years earlier the Bolsheviks had established […]
[…] through those first pitiful drafts of fiction at the School of Spencer. Unknowingly he opened a new world for me when others had closed down. To begin, I notice that Sean Ziebarth (SZ) categorized […]
[…] certain corrupt ideas. It didn’t have to be this way, of course. One can easily imagine a world where Mormonism refuses to recognize the authority of other churches but nevertheless maintains that truth can […]
The reach of environmental problems today urges us to consider more carefully how interdependent we are with one another and with the entirety of ecological processes across the globe. Environmental degradation has reached […]
Tonight I want to challenge some of the conventional axioms of Mormon religion and culture and to propose a more progressive Mormonism. Let me begin, however, with a tribute to my dear friend Eugene […]
[…] have proved to be so useful that some historians now concede that a review of the contemporary fiction is a fruitful, if not an indispensable, preliminary to the search for historical truth in any period.
[…] often wish that more of our sisters could have the opportunity of doing missionary work in the world but I suppose their work, which is great, is nearer home. I am called to leave […]
[…] my primary objective; maybe I needed to focus instead on helping ward members access the brave new world of internet resources. After all, this is what we were doing up at the university: moving […]
The flaws of Mormon fiction are many. But so are the possibilities.
Dialogue 24.1 (Spring 1991): 86–98 In preparation for the Independence Temple that was dedicated in 1994, an RLDS member shares ideas about temples in general.