[…] mothers cannot imagine what it is like not to know the woman who brought you into the world.[18] An adopted baby “wants its own mother, and can only perceive of her disappearance as abandonment. […]
Dialogue 38.4 (Winter 2006):105–156 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
I had never heard of fundamentalist Mormons until seeing a 60 Minutes segment about them in the late 1980s. During a western vacation, I visited Colorado City, Arizona, on January 2, 1988, and talked […]
[…] more and more historians work to situate Mormonism in American history, Mormons like me want to join the discussion. We will write better if we are less defensive, more open to criticism, more exploratory […]
[…] 1993, I heard her claim that you don’t really know your own place if you don’t know the local birds. She had no idea, but she had just slapped defibrillator paddles on my heart. […]
When Edward Tullidge arrived in Utah during the late summer of 1861, one of his first actions was to write Brigham Young and state his “earnest desire” to enter the prophet’s service. “I care […]
Dialogue 47.1 (Spring 2014):24–57 his article will examine hospitality as it is found in the Book of Mormon. We will look at instances when a person (or group) invites an outsider (or group of […]
[…] of everybody standing up and singing together—that’s great and I enjoy it. I’ve been all over the world and I’ve enjoyed going to church, and even though it was in Dutch or German or […]