Restless Grace | Terry Tempest Williams, Leap
March 29, 2018[…] “created a community. . .in discovery” (p. 169). Affirming that art and nature teach us that “The world is holy. . . .All life is holy” (p. 147), Leap is, then, an act of […]
[…] “created a community. . .in discovery” (p. 169). Affirming that art and nature teach us that “The world is holy. . . .All life is holy” (p. 147), Leap is, then, an act of […]
During the 1830’s John Whitmer wrote, in connection with the ancient Egyptian records purchased by the church in July 1835 from Michael H. Chandler,
[…] 171). She’s traveling through stern country dressed as a man and riding a horse in a north/south/up-and-down-the-territory search for her stolen gray mare Vittick, the “finest-blooded horse she had ever owned, and due to […]
[…] even its constitutional order. The Mormon Question portrays a period of water shed change in the constitutional world of American religion when the ante bellum ordering of law and religion was abandoned for the […]
[…] in. . .[thus]. . .careful readers can still grow morally by being forced to decide in the world of the literary novel” (p. 9). Ultimately, Bennion calls for a balanced narrative diet, and that […]
He watches Elain’s buttocks, the tan shorts browned at the seat, as she walks briskly ahead of him on the narrow trail. Her dirty orange day pack bounces on her back, the leaky canteen […]
[…] regard it as a nineteenth century document: “Although Joseph Smith presented the Book of Mormon to the world as his translation of an ancient document, it is generally regarded by non-Mormons as a nineteenth-century […]
[…] explores the ambiguities, for both its author and her subjects, of being Mormon in the increasingly feminist world of twentieth-century America. The variations on this theme, which Bush explores in six autobiographies, make for […]
[…] Mormon Women is a slim publication attempting to represent two hundred years of poetry by Mormon women. The anthology is divided into sections that portray the stages of a woman’s life. In the preface […]
[…] and Pratt engaging in creative theology. While Pratt advised elders “never to advance an idea before the world, which we cannot substantiate by revelation” (94), he would occasionally “stretch” the definition of “revelation” and […]