The Playhouse
April 14, 2018[…] a deep breath and run down stairs where everything was civilized and Grampa was hunched over the news on the radio, turning the sound up so loud you couldn’t hear anything else. I was […]
[…] a deep breath and run down stairs where everything was civilized and Grampa was hunched over the news on the radio, turning the sound up so loud you couldn’t hear anything else. I was […]
On 27 July 1989, in the middle of the night, two people stopped their truck on our street, watched until they thought we were in bed, then ran across our front yard, threw a grenade-sized…
[…] Law and so convicted of sin” (1980, 40). Paul adopted several key terms difficult to translate into English because of their cultural richness. He taught that individuals have been “washed clean . . . […]
[…] assess the scientific validity of Ferguson’s conclusions but rather to consider the role of faith in his search for confirmation of the Book of Mormon’s assertions. It would not be inappropriate, however, to observe […]
In his carefully crafted and distinguished novel Recapitulation (1979), Wallace Stegner, Iowa-born, Saskatchewan-reared, but Utah-formed, joins his protagonist Bruce Mason on a brief visit to Salt Lake City some forty-five years after leaving home. The seventy-ish Mason, now a successful lawyer, distinguished internationalist and former ambassador, returns to the city of his youth and young manhood to arrange for the burial of his Aunt Margaret. To his surprise, his Gentile return to Zion releases—through an outpouring of nostalgia, memories, dreams and fantasies—the ghosts of unresolved conflicts which have haunted him, consciously and subconsciously, from those early years.
Dialogue 24.1 (Spring 1991): 86–98
In preparation for the Independence Temple that was dedicated in 1994, an RLDS member shares ideas about temples in general.
[…] including “The Kingdom of God” from Mormonism’s most successful missionary piece, A Voice of Warning, published in twenty-four English editions before 1900, and “Keys of the Mysteries of the Godhead” from Key to the Science […]
About fifteen years ago, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher invited Franklin Fisher, a young and aesthetically bearded professor of English at the University of Utah, to read from his novel in progress at a gathering of […]
[…] end of her pioneer journey and weep without reason. She couldn’t remain old-fashioned Ane either. She became English-style Anne in their account (“Annie” finally on her tombstone). On April 10, 1866, they started north […]
[…] he was in “flesh and most excellent spirits,” and by the time he could get her bad news everything would be over, one way or the other. Tildy Elizabeth lifted her head and listened. […]