Mormons have been involved in films ever since Hollywood became a magic word. Church members first tried to influence the Hollywood establishment, then went on to create their own film industries; finally, today a corps…
In a recent New Era article (August 1972) Arthur Henry King made an incisive comment about Mormon literature: Mormon artists, he said, “need not write especially for Mormons, and they need not write especially on…
It will come as news to all Latter-day Saints that after many years of deep scholarly research the Hill Cumorah has finally been located—at the north end of Bird Island in Utah Lake. Those familiar…
A serious novel about children usually is fascinating to adults. Emma Lou Thayne’s first novel, Never Past the Gate, is a zestful story with a mature theme. Ostensibly a lighthearted, nostalgic narrative of a family’s…
[…] canals, and railroad spurs, etc.) , the political and financial difficulties causing years of setbacks, the architectural design of the exterior and interior, the symbolic exterior stones (earth, moon, sun, cloud, stars, Saturn, big […]
[…] God: “Murray, the trouble with you is you think you’re God, and everybody has to audition for human being.” It’s a superficial comedy, but Herb Gardner’s witty lines often convey some fragment of philosophic […]
In 1971, all official church magazines were literally swept away and replaced by three colorful, professional, slick publications, each aimed at a different age group—the Ensign for adults, the New Era for young people and…
[…] Day Adventism except for Mrs. White’s persistent insistence that her religious and health ideas were independent of human influence. For Mormons, particularly Mormon historians, the book is not only interesting but a rich source […]
Mormons are perhaps not as interesting to other people as they think they are. True, we have our history of strange practices and our epic migration to recommend us to the wider community, but the…
[…] example, Theodore M. Burton, “The Inspiration of a Family Record,” Ensign, January, 1977, pp. 13-14. Roy Pascal, Design and Truth in Autobiography (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960), p. 181. Stephen A. Shapiro “The […]