[…] pen into a weapon against social injustice. His stark masterpieces Salka Valka (1931-32), Independent People (1934) and World Light (1937-40) depict the plight of defenseless and abject people struggling indomitably against indifferent nature and […]
[…] arts. Old Nick had circled some passages in a bright red magic marker. I quote: In our world, there have risen brilliant stars in drama, music, literature, sculpture, painting, science, and all the graces. […]
Dialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 22–31 This study addresses poetry within the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and defines an RLDS poet as someone who belongs to the RLDS church and […]
[…] of published works in the field of Mormon literature today consists of cliches borrowed from the larger world of bad literature. This cheap and easy fiction, the pretty romances, the cute tales of cute […]
[…] — the stigma of lesser status among converts. Sadly, this story counters the hope that a certain world view legitimized by various Church leaders and surviving somehow into the early seventies had, by the […]
[…] that the faith of the community survives, that they are able to go on believing in the world and the value of prayer, even when they have learned that this is a world where […]
[…] faith. It is no longer beyond her, as it was before her conversion, to consider the spirit world viable, the distance between mortals and their predecessors, small. It is something she sometimes hopes for, […]
[…] population. Until recently I subscribed to the optimistic view. I witnessed the phenomenal growth during the post- World War II decades as member ship figures increased by 2,000 percent in forty years; the Australian […]
[…] international gospel is increasingly lived locally by individuals trying to make sense out of a globally interconnected world. In the next century claims of an ethnic Mormon identity will continue to be made by […]
I turned from the calendar to find the diary in my bookcase. It was hard to miss; the orange and red cover stood out like a sister at a priest hood meeting. I started […]