A Tentative Approach to the Book of Abraham
March 28, 2018During the 1830’s John Whitmer wrote, in connection with the ancient Egyptian records purchased by the church in July 1835 from Michael H. Chandler,
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Where the Walls of the World Wear Thin | Judith Freeman, Red Water
March 27, 2018[…] 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 […]
Mormon Polygamy and the American Constitution | Sarah Barringer, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth Century America
March 27, 2018[…] 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 […]
Reaching toward Heaven, Rooted on Earth | John Bennion, Falling toward Heaven
March 27, 2018[…] 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 […]
Havesu
March 27, 2018He 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 […]
A Frank Analysis of a Troubling Legacy | Armand L. Mauss, All Abraham’s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
March 26, 2018[…] 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 […]
“Gender Troubles” and Mormon Women’s Voices | Laura L. Bush, Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth Century Mormon Women’s Autobiographical Acts
March 22, 2018[…] 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 […]
Women in a Time Warp | Sheree Maxwell Bench and Susan Elizabeth Howe, eds., Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women
March 22, 2018[…] 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 […]
The Open Canon and Innovation | Gary JAmes Bergera, Conflict in the Quorum: Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith
March 22, 2018[…] 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 […]
An Open Letter to the Dialogue Board
March 22, 2018[…] say I wish Dialogue well, and I want it to succeed. I am very heartened to see the appearance of important works on Mormonism in places like Oxford University Press or the Harvard Theological […]