Mid-Century Mormon Novels
May 3, 2018One general statement can be made about the Mormon novels published since 1940: they are as varied as the attitudes about Mormonism and the philosophies about literature. There are books which pretend to be […]
One general statement can be made about the Mormon novels published since 1940: they are as varied as the attitudes about Mormonism and the philosophies about literature. There are books which pretend to be […]
How things really are we would like to know. Does Time flow, or is it atomized in instants hammered around the clock’s face?
A landscape lies under the open sky . . . (Open? The sky’s the limit, the daylight veil over the illimitable, withdrawn for revelation from the darkness beyond of Adam’s first—and longest—nightmare trying to […]
The prophet is dead. Feeling a special quiet in the chapel this morning I sensed others were experiencing his going too. What did this mean to me? Why my tears and sorrow? Surely […]
[…] rising from the wheat Save coupled with your death. Seeing her, with those first rude playthings, The world growing large in the veins of a leaf, I shudder. I grow old in her budding […]
A continuing problem of the Mormon intellectual is to remain both Mormon and intellectual. His is the problem of religious intellectuals generally—to dare to follow where the mind leads, to prevent the indecision that […]
Since 1952 I have conducted a part-time private practice along with university teaching. On leaves from the university and during summer months I have worked as a clinical psychologist at the Utah State Hospital […]
Dialogue 5.3 (Fall 1970): 96–99 Marvin S Hill was responding to Fawn Brodie’s lecture at the Hotel Utah in 1970 called “Can We Manipulate the Past?” Her point in giving it was she was […]
the father and his friends, holding the holy high priesthood and the infant, stand in a circle, facing each other, right hands supporting the baby— rising, falling to gentle it— left hands on […]
[…] great vacuum in Mormon bibliography. For the next ten years, he directed his considerable talent in the search for all printed works on Mormons and Mormonism. This search led him to all the great libraries […]