[…] with the Poplars in her country lanes, They have known exile too And reach for their Old World home As you might for your [own?] in absentia. If by Richards’s own hand, these might […]
[…] order to judge the text’s accuracy—this was a new idea about the relationship between narratives and the world. Making the question of scriptural truth a positive question—a question about posits—reflected a wholesale change that […]
[…] to all Latter-day Saint self-perceptions and to the images which they have attempted to present to the world. Of all these pasts, the most accessible to writers are those that are most recent. The […]
[…] Utah actresses.[17] Despite these entries, Hollywood continued to be fascinated by the “Mormon Question” or polygamy. Post World War I movies repeatedly emphasized the lurid and sensational. In Riders of the Purple Sage and […]
[…] most effective nineteenth century Mormon missionary tract. Before 1900 the Utah Church published twenty- four editions in English as well as editions in Danish, Dutch, French, German, Icelandic, Spanish and Swedish. [28] “Oliver Cowdery […]
[…] when considered in the light of LDS ecclesiastical praxis and restoration scripture. By fundamentalist, I mean the world-view that sees the commitment of faith as an irreducible given, extends this commitment to its broadest […]
William Smith, younger brother of the prophet Joseph Smith, has been easy to dismiss but difficult to deal with. More often than not, he has been described with adjectives like violent, wicked, unstable, and […]
[…] could get past my own prejudices and listen carefully to how he, as another Christian, viewed the world. He really does believe that environment has more to do with a person’s sinning than will […]
[…] to why she doesn’t want to talk about Placement, about the rudeness of being thrust into another world as a ten year-old girl. Finally, when it seems obvious she does want to talk about […]
The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews sums up his Christian faith with the memorable cry (13:8): “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever!” The “yesterday” and “today” of this cry […]