[…] familiarity, normalcy, and something related to and part of “us.” My material consists of more than 100 newspaper and magazine clippings, radio stories, and television news reports from around Finland. The greatest interest in […]
[…] Thought when it was located in Virginia. In mid-1981, Mary Bradford, the editor, gave me the distressing news that Lavina, who had been on the editorial staff of The Ensign, had been fired. Nearly […]
[…] from the state unless the offending photo plays were withdrawn from circulation. Although the Church owned Deseret News praised Spry’s success in partially suppressing The Victim, in the United States, not everyone connected with […]
[…] relate, even where the resources are skimpy indeed the “Developers” invade en masse, determined to make a marketable commodity of the only remaining value—solitude. They are selling that, and of course destroying it in […]
[…] C. of LDS that we have been called of God to accomplish the divine purpose in God’s world. When we make this assertion it does not necessarily follow that no other person or institution […]
[…] continued into 1818. The second oddity about the decades-long repetition of the minister-researcher’s denials involves Palmyra’s weekly newspaper. Its edition of 28 June 1820 referred to out-of-town visitor James Couser, who died on June […]
[…] that a major portion of this manuscript was published by Mrs. Sam (Arlene) Hess in a souvenir newspaper, the “Friendship, N.Y., Sesqui-Centennial Times,” July 25-31, 1965. This was brought to the attention of all […]
[…] cycle” or “routinization of charisma.” According to this theory, a religious sect begins with a “charismatic” event—a breaking-in to history of something thrilling but uncontainable, like miraculous divine power or invisible gold plates. But […]
[…] disclosing that I may bring a somewhat unique perspective to the Book of Mormon. I am an English professor who studies nineteenth-century American literature and religion, and I regularly teach the Book of Mormon […]
[…] Literature,” Mormon Letters Annual, 1984 (Salt Lake City: Association for Mormon Letters, 1985), 163. Yoshihiko Kikuchi, “ Breaking Barriers,” 1-2, speech delivered at Brigham Young University, 26 Jan. 1993, copy in my possession. Lighten […]