[…] of God forever and ever.” These verses explain that single people have not obeyed the command to get married, and therefore, by definition, are not righteous. Mormon leaders teach an exception to the harsh […]
[…] emotional. I had also read the awful scenes of tormented children in Dostoevski’s The Brothers Karamazov to get me ready. But even with my adrenalin flowing as I faced the audience, I could not […]
[…] objects. But contemporary deconstructionist critics point out that wherever there is a binary opposition—truth/error, presence/absence, identity/difference, speech/ writing, being/nothingness, life/death, mind/matter, master/slave—one half of the pair is “privileged.” There is always, says Jacques Derrida, […]
[…] in the world. The conference not only shapes and gives its blessings to new programs but also reviews budgetary expenditures of the previous two years to ensure that the directives of the last conference […]
Students of Utah and Mormon historiography ought to be rejoicing at the flowering of literature in that field over recent years. Beginning perhaps in the last decade with Wallace Stegner’s biography of Bernard DeVoto and…
[…] road sign that warns: “Frequent Crosswinds.” I like that phrase, and if I ever get around to writing my personal history, I think I will use it as the title. Throughout my life, I […]
[…] focus of much of his historical research and interest was the nineteenth century. His earlier research and writing on Brig ham Young, Fort Bridger, Fort Supply, Mormon colonization in the West, and polygamy all […]
[…] status of the Church in Israel. It is these feelings that have prompted me to write this essay. Fortunately, recent developments in the international arena toward peaceful solutions to regional conflicts, including the Middle […]
[…] human existence tend to be those that belong to the realm of spirit: beauty, truth, knowledge, love, service, and so forth. As Roquentin illustrates, mortals are propelled by an innate yearning to be complete […]
[…] passed as a poet from obscurity to publicity without investigating her inner resources, without exploring, in her writing, at least, the depths of her own soul. But following her necessarily secret marriage to Joseph […]