[…] and do, laud imperialistic, authoritarian slave societies. The scholarship of antiquity is often removed from the real world, hygienically free of value judgments. Of the value judgments, that is, of the voiceless masses, the […]
[…] stories will be remembered longer. Why? Because they grow out of and support many Mormons’ beliefs, their world view. This essay grows out of four observations we have made regarding the way Mormons tell […]
[…] by Christ and of the power God has granted his children to sanctify themselves by overcoming the world. In such a reality Latter-day Saints live, move, and have their being; it is their meat […]
[…] room, they hovered around me talking in whispers about Mama’s eternal reward and happiness in the next world, but I knew they were aching to ask me what I was going to do now […]
<i>Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 1–18</i><br>Well, I was raised in a rather unscientific environment , a little farming community.
[…] it’d never come to actual tears. Now, he just lay there, crying like the end of the world. “Bobbie,” I said. “Where’s that ring you bought me, huh?” I could tell the crying embarrassed […]
[…] mothers cannot imagine what it is like not to know the woman who brought you into the world. An adopted baby “wants its own mother, and can only perceive of her disappearance as abandonment. […]
<i>Dialogue 38.4 (Winter 2006):105–156</i><br>He has written about it at least four times. It reflects most of the problems with all of his extended chiasms. My argument is that he has imposed chiasmus on the […]
[…] have entirely missed what I consider to be the true nature of art. Art, particularly in today’s world, is the antithesis of inflexibility. The Church can use only one kind of image—that which perpetuates […]
I am happy to pay tribute to Gene England, a vivid and significant twentieth-century intellectual of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Gene influenced many Mormons with his rigorous ethics, his lived […]