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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, 2018

Each 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, 2018

This 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, 2018

Americans 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. . […]

No Other Way? | Jeffrey A. Trumbower, Rescue for the Dead: The Posthumous Salvation of Non-Christians in Early Christianity

March 27, 2018

[…] saved status after death. The second century writer of 2 Clement declared, “Once we have departed this world, we can no longer confess there or repent any more” (8:3). On the other hand, the […]

A Bloody and Diabolical Deed | Will Bagley, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows

March 26, 2018

[…] sins through the shedding of the sinner’s own blood—as a “literal and terrible reality” in Brigham Young’s world (p. 51). In order to fathom the horrors committed at Mountain Meadows, readers are asked to […]

Mind, Body, and the Boundary Waters

March 26, 2018

[…] strong or as ambitious. Six of us set out, four of us history professors along with an English teacher and an artist. In five days we traversed over 30 miles of terrain, paddled through […]