Institutions, structures and traditional roles provide necessary meaning, support and direction in people’s lives. Chaos occurs when they are wholly lost, and yet too much structure and constricting roles, out-of step with a changing […]
Most readers of Mormon fiction would quickly agree that the genre still awaits a writer of the stature of Chaim Potok or James Michener, to say nothing of a Joyce or a Faulkner. Perhaps […]
This time of year in the Willamette Valley is full to bursting, glutted with the harvest. Hazelnut trees, tassled and drooping with nuts, trail their branches in the fat green rivers; grain and corn […]
[…] a new and panoramic view of, a fresh insight into, Mormonism as a phenomenon in American and world history. The titles and authorship of the various books speak eloquently not only of Mormonism, but also […]
More important than the book itself is the furor it raised. When In His Image was published, people were forced to ask some provocative questions: Is human cloning actually possible? What are its social, […]
Ask any Mormon culture buff about Dialogue, Sunstone, BYU Studies or perhaps the Utah Historical Quarterly and you will get an informed response. But the Charles Redd Monographs in Western History? The odds are […]
[…] Harlow Soderborg Clark, surgically deaf By sheer nerve you’ve gone Van Gogh one better: cut your ear off from your brain, but left it blooming in your hair. You’d auditioned city living just so long—
It is an unusual talent that can write a collection of short stories, transform them into the script of a musical, compose and direct the music (songs and lyrics), and play the accordion, organ, […]
Dialogue 14.1 (Spring 1981): 65–73 I believe there is a connection between theway influential supporters of the amendment think about equality and abor-tion, and I believe that the drive for a particular definition of […]
[…] marched to the front of the chapel to sing their tribute to mother. The expectant little faces search the congregation anxiously and then break into joyful smiles, sometimes even audible “Hi, Mom’s.” A three-year-old […]