For the Children of the Promise
May 3, 2018[…] July 4th fetes, and I in San Francisco resented singing “O Ye Mountains High.” Now as an international Church those localisms have been filtered out. But I think that making story back grounds so […]
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From Utah Poems: To Elias
May 3, 2018[…] bright to bear: bomb-sheltered Mothers feeding children. Cathedrals Turning air to colored breath. Girls leaning back on English dunes, Friends younger still than I Climbing into aircraft, And the inscrutable long slow Turns above […]
Virginia Sorensen: A Saving Remnant
May 3, 2018Nearly fifteen years have passed since I, in looking around for a thesis topic, began to read “Mormon novels.” It seems odd to remember how electrifying were the “forbidden” Vardis Fisher and others I hadn’t heard of: Scowcroft, Whipple, Robertson, Blanche Cannon, even Samuel Taylor. It must be a clue to our culture that a girl could get through graduate school without such an awakening, especially when many of those writers seem so bland today that I wonder along with Sam Taylor “if most of them weren’t mainly victims of bad timing.” What my awakening really consisted of was a refreshing realization that some of those giants from our past were really human beings after all (“saints by adoption”).
Voices of Freedom in Eastern Europe: “Spring” and “Winter” in Prague: Some Thoughts on the Human Spirit
May 2, 2018[…] engaged in unhindered discussion, not only in Czech, but in a Babel of tongues—German, Russian, Bulgarian, Polish, English, and French. Even foreign visitors—from the Communist East as well as from the West—seemed unable to […]
Voices of Freedom in Eastern Europe: Communists, and Then Communists
May 2, 2018[…] academic disciplines. Up until about two years ago, city dwellers in Poland could even buy Time or News week right from their newsstands under a cultural agreement with the United States. Unfortunately, under the […]
The Secular Relevance of the Gospel | Hugh W. Nibley, Since Cumorah
May 2, 2018[…] made a corollary of the gospel. What irony! The gospel is not just another ideology. The good news about Jesus Christ is an affront to all ideologies; it challenges all the presumptions we label […]
The Lion of the Lord | Stanley P. Hirshon, The Lion of the Lord, a biography of Brigham Young
May 1, 2018[…] to reach the flesh-and-blood Brigham Young, leaving us rather with a caricature of the man drawn from news accounts of the period; the founder of a new western empire is transformed into a paper […]
The Farm Boy and the Angel | Carl Carmer, The Farm Boy and the Angel
May 1, 2018Readers of Dialogue who have been searching for a sympathetic, read able, and reasonably accurate introduction to Mormonism to present to their non-Mormon friends may well consider Carl Carmer’s The Farm Boy and the Angel.…
My Father’s Six Widows
May 1, 2018In view of the fact that my father had sacrificed both worldly goods and his chances in heaven for the dream of the great patriarchal family, it is ironical that the only time all six…
Sources of Mormon Americana in Utah
May 1, 2018[…] Young University Library. BYU, for example, has the responsibility of locating and indexing periodical articles. Staff members search all the standard periodical indexes and extract references to articles which deal with Mormonism. The Utah […]