[…] the travel orders from Perpetual Emigration officials to flee the “de cadence and apostasy of the wicked world,” our eyes fixed with theirs on “the distant land of Zion” (p. 261). “For all immigrants,” […]
[…] from orthodoxy, a basic disagreement or a sense of alienation which, after inner turmoil, confrontation with the world, and personal growth, leads to recon ciliation and a return to the fold on one’s own […]
In the last days of summer we walk through tall grass to the river long before the sun spills
Samuel Johnson coined the phrase, and Virginia Woolf gave it its place in the language: the “common reader.” That per son, Doctor Johnson wrote, by whose common sense, “uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all […]
[…] then on I am continually aware that she leaves more unsaid. It is apparent that McCloud’s re search is superficial and incomplete, sometimes causing her to make false assumptions. For example, Ellis returns to […]
[…] expected to sell well in Salt Lake City. But Bob Gottlieb and Peter Wiley, both outsiders to the LDS Church and to Utah, have written a book of profound interest to Mormon readers. Over […]
David Riesman, in his landmark study of American higher education entitled The Academic Revolution (1969), was fascinated by BYU and insightfully observes: “Despite academic upgrading, Brigham Young has not lost its sectarian character nor […]
Come, my child, hark to the tale The poets weave for our world: Hear the prophets sing the song Of earth rolling on her wings—
[…] When my daughters turn nineteen and join Relief Society, the message will be very different from the world view in Young Women. In Learn of Me, anonymous authors tell them that homemaking provides “ample […]
The only major LDS science-fiction writer, Orson Scott Card recently won the Nebula Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America for Ender’s Game (1985) and nominations for the Hugo Award. Speaker for […]