from Falling Toward Heaven
March 29, 2018The next morning Allison dropped Howard at the Mormon church in Rockwood, which, except for the thin spire, was shaped like a large, sub urban house. Though he had asked, she refused to […]
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Evidence without Reconciliation | LaMar Petersen, The Creation of the Book of Mormon: A Historical Inquiry
March 29, 2018[…] de lightsome vs. dark and loathsome, and the unceasing battle between good and evil both in the world at large and within every person). While the later church took a rigid stance with respect […]
The Dangers of Missionary Work | Ken Driggs, Evil Among Us: The Texas Mormon Missionary Murders
March 29, 2018[…] encounter, in spite of plenty of evidence that they are not immune from the evils of the world. Perhaps, instead of prayer, they would be better served by a special MTC training course de […]
The Idea of a University | Sterling M. McMurrin and L. Jackson Newell, Matters of Conscience: Conversations with Sterling M. McMurrin on Philosophy, Education, and Religion, and Bryan Waterman and Brian Kagel, The Lord’s University: Freedom and Authority at BYU
March 29, 2018Each of these books provides a thoughtful, intimate account of the uneasy co-existence of scholarly life and Mormon orthodoxies. Read together, the long journey of a prominent heretic and the recent conflicts over academic […]
A Travelogue Nonpareil | Jan Shipps, Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons
March 28, 2018[…] transition from “peoplehood to church membership” (p. 30). This process, which Shipps places in the half-century following World War II, includes a weakening of Mormon “ethnicity,” an ascribed cultural identity that was a product […]
Remembering the Chevrolet
March 28, 2018[…] upon my mouth. He accused: “You resurrect words I like, like bodies brought too often from the tomb to be surprising, interesting, new.” Like Clint, who loved saying “portico,” and Gene himself: speaking […]
Selling the Chevrolet: A Moral Exercise (vol. 16, no. 3, Fall 1983)
March 28, 2018This is the saddest story I have ever told. Not because The Chevrolet is gone, but because it probably is not. This much is known. During the Christmas season of 1973, Gene and Charlotte […]
Wars of Preemption, Wars of Revenge
March 27, 2018Americans may be on the eve of a preemptive attack on a foreign country, ostensibly to protect ourselves from potential future attacks. Our nemesis, Saddam Hussein, is known to be evil, having gassed his […]
Hugh Nibley | Boyd Jay Petersen, Hugh Nibley: “A Consecrated Life”
March 27, 2018[…] turns of phrase. Petersen alternates his chapters between chronological biography (childhood, mission to Germany, military service in World War II, and so on) and topical themes in Nibley’s life (social criticism, faith, scholarship, Book […]
It Happens So Often
March 27, 2018[…] of early dawn is in the window. With a final burning shove he joins us in the world, a small bluish boy with a head of slick, black hair. We are all crying. . […]