[…] graduate work in intellectual history (Cornell) and comparative literature (UNC Chapel Hill). In 2019 he retired from the Jabez A. Bostwick Chair at the University of Richmond to be Neal A. Maxwell Senior Research […]
[…] talks or lessons, they just leak out of me in my day to day responses to the world.”[2] In short, James Goldberg is a mystic—a mystic for Mormons. I don’t mean that what he has […]
[…] Hiram Woolley, who uses faith-powered folk magic to face down old evil within a new and fast-changing world. There is a vibrant tradition in Mormon literature of searching for the Mormon Corridor’s soul through […]
[…] through his concentration on politics. The Mormon commonwealth served as both a self-contained refuge from the outside world and the locus for a society that would establish the Kingdom of God on earth. In […]
When Samuel W. Taylor began toying with the idea of writing on the Nauvoo period of Mormon history, his editor undoubtedly pointed out that as fiction the subject was strictly a zero. Who would […]
[…] articles in Utah and their subsequent reputation there. We cannot imagine those articles being written today: the world has changed too much. Mutatis mutandis, granting the idioms and sentiments of this later time, if […]
[…] triumphant, universally visible advent heralded by at-least-metaphorical trumpets, putting an end to sin and transforming our strife-torn world into one of peace, unity, and beauty. My Struggles with this Doctrine I want to begin […]
[…] detailed comparative analysis or genealogical survey of such paratextual features in ancient and modern texts. Were there world enough and time (and no limitations on word count), I would have included copious examples of […]
[…] many ways abuse of this kind is a bodily manifestation of something that women have encountered the world over. This passage from the biblical Song of Solomon illustrates what I mean in visceral symbolism. […]
Brooke Larson is a tree hugger—literally. She hugs a female gingko in Central Park after pissing at its base. This reminds her of a tree she once hugged in Jerusalem. She walks tree to […]