[…] 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 […]
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought has been changing in 2019, including bringing on a foreigner as the new fiction editor. That’s me. None of the fiction I’ve been curating will appear before this […]