[…] chapters in which each author takes turns explaining his own position. Every chapter begins with an author breaking up his discussion into four sections: (1) what his own religious tradition believes about the particular […]
[…] and Rebecca Chandler are writers—Neal a well known writer of fiction, and Becky a master teacher of English at Laurel School, a private school for girls in Shaker Heights, Ohio. It seems appropriate that, […]
To most people, Utah’s apostle-senator, Reed Smoot, seems one-dimensional. Most Latter-day Saints re member him as a member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles and as a senator from Utah. Some have heard of the…
[…] I refused him on all counts. After a month, my wife told me she’d heard I was breaking the Word of Wisdom while she was in the temple. “It’s herbal.” “That’s not what I […]
[…] compelled to defend them against her venom. As Jessie’s character evolves, however, Mormonism is totemic of the search for a kind of instant meaning that all of the characters seek. Neither Mor monism nor […]
[…] could link him to the alleged deeds. Into the middle of this storm broke a piece of news. The DNA of Thomas Jefferson’s paternal uncle had been compared to the DNA of the descendants […]
[…] ways devoted to encouraging and promoting rather small groups of chosen people—Milton the Puritans and Shakespeare the English Anglican Royalists. But they were also, among the world’s writers, two of the most radically subversive […]
[…] the mailbox and screamed and one of my neighbors thought someone had died. But I was just breaking into print and helping to build the kingdom for cash with my good advice on effective […]
[…] Julie and her parents experience in El Salvador the reality that “we Gringos see on the 6:00 news: that world of wars and quakes and starvation and little brown people with desperate eyes who were […]
[…] other. Let me illustrate. As Mormons we fall prey to a certain fallacy of gleaning. Told to search the world for knowledge, we come home with reiterations of things we already knew, like LaRena […]