Of Politics and Poplars
April 17, 2018The Lombardy poplars are almost gone now. This shouldn’t nag at me, but it does. They used to be everywhere in Utah, lining the edges of farms, marking a town’s boundaries, or marching […]
The Lombardy poplars are almost gone now. This shouldn’t nag at me, but it does. They used to be everywhere in Utah, lining the edges of farms, marking a town’s boundaries, or marching […]
[…] references in the Harris letter, which some Mormons are claiming is a forgery.” The source for the news article was none other than Mark Hofmann, publicly bolstering his earlier forgeries from behind the scenes. […]
The October 2011 issue of Harper’s Magazine features as its cover article a lengthy, provocative, at times insightful, but mostly wholly tendentious anti-Mormon screed by Chris Lehmann, entitled “Pennies from Heaven.”
[…] Sillitoe, one of Utah’s finest poets and novelists, developed her skills in investigative reporting at the Deseret News. Allen Roberts is a Utah architect specializing in historical preservation who has published several investigative articles […]
[…] higher learning in the United States” while simultaneously decrying the “worldview of Babylon” and the “cynical secular world” (pp. ix-x). Continuing the self-contradiction in his first essay, “How Should Our Story Be Told?”, Millet […]
My marriage in 1968 to a man who was not a member of the Church has been instrumental to my growth and development not only as a person but also as a Latter-day Saint. […]
[…] wed. Althea and I lived in Provo for two years while I completed a master’s degree in English and she served as secretary of the Freshman English program at BYU. We lived a year […]
[…] chew this for a while?” It wasn’t that we weren’t tempted. We were in the midst of World War II, and gum was hard to come by. You cherished each piece, chewing it for […]
[…] body power, sense experience, and spirit. The image depicts both human and beyond-human things, in a matter world. At the poem’s ending her mother asks, “Where have you been?” Her answer was not merely, […]
[…] Books, there are probably more copies of this novel around than there are LDS missionaries in the world. There comes a point, when bad literature is so widespread, that one feels obliged to take […]