The Principle, Kathryn Smoot Caldwell’s first novel, received the significant encouragement of first prize in Randall Book’s 1983 LDS Novel Writing Contest —$500 plus a $1,000 advance on royalties. (Second and third place […]
When I first hold our children, Lately having labored alongside you, I promised many things — too many — Like the alcoholic too late repentant,
This blade of stone cuts the grass to the quick.
[…] give to you a dew-wrapped day, You have no need to tell me — I should know That you would use it all to make things grow. The furling bud, the fruiting branch are pay
This book is as much a history of the Mormon Church in California during the 1847-57 decade as it is a history of Mormon gold mining. The author gives a plethora of detail concerning […]
[…] is required reading for anyone who may feel that statistical analysis can make only negligible contributions to the study of Mormon history and culture. Those who were already believers in the value of combining […]
Vermont, Autumn 1805 And the boy, the milky angel said, will be like the wild rain that shatters the crops and spins the brittle stalks end upon end.
[…] and mottled snow that day we brought him there to you. I stepped on headstones to avoid the mud and deer dung just in time to see the grey steel box descend. I watched […]
The sound burrs in my head like a racket of angry birds swirling from the sky. He’s gone again;
DIALOGUE: A JOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT begins both its twentieth volume and its twenty-first year with the publication of this issue. Launched in 1966 as a daring and earnest effort to transform the serious conversation […]