Problems of the Mormon Intellectual
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 comes…
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Fatherly Advice | Dean C. Jessee, ed., My Dear Son: Letters of Brigham Young to His Sons
The fiddles are tuning in Mormon historiography. Not only is there a great deal of activity as new histories are written and old classics revived; there is, more importantly, a new professionalism. Mormon scholars have…
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Humor and Pathos: Stories of the Mormon Diaspora | Neal Chandler, Benediction: A Book of Stories
A late review has the advantage of calling a good book to the attention of any one who may have missed it the first time around, and of reaffirming what time has already proved—its lasting…
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Telling It Slant: Aiming for Truth in Contemporary Mormon Literature
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History, Memory and Imagination in Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen’s Kingdom Come
Many years ago Virginia Sorensen wrote me a prophetic letter. She had just read my article, “Through Immigrant Eyes: Utah History at the Grass Roots.” She sounded breathless: “For years and years/’ she wrote, “I have believed—for what reason, I wonder, since I never really lived in the houses where the true tradition was but could only visit a while, and listen, and pause always by the gate where I could hear and see it?—that I was the one to tell this story you speak of. Almost I have heard The Call!”
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