A Conversation About Mormonism
July 29, 2024[…] closest I’ve felt to God in the last six months was when I was in a Methodist service. Their God can accept me—there aren’t so many rules. Their God says that’s O.K. Bob: The […]
[…] closest I’ve felt to God in the last six months was when I was in a Methodist service. Their God can accept me—there aren’t so many rules. Their God says that’s O.K. Bob: The […]
[…] Southern Utah. Published by Harper & Row in the fall, Fresh Meat/Warm Weather has been getting favorable reviews around the country. (It was eighth on the best seller list in Southern California last spring.) […]
[…] Caine, the sixty-six translations contained therein were the work of “several persons, but in every instance the services of Japanese poets were secured to arrange the hymns into Japanese verse.” The hymns originated in […]
[…] speculator, public office holder (twice), candidate for the U.S. Senate, political party state chairman, mission president (twice), servicemen’s coordinator, college professor, husband, father of six daughters and two sons—he was seventy when his appointment […]
[…] and Susa Young Gates); analyses of women as characters in Mormon fiction. Although the quality of the writing is uneven, the book is certainly scholarly enough for the classroom, readable enough to be enjoyed […]
[…] for government concern regarding Mormon loyalties. Probably Norman Furniss’s The Mormon Conflict should have been read before writing this part of the book. The treatment of the Mountain Meadows Massacre avoids the pitfalls of […]
[…] makes me suspicious of these devices for efficiency. And what about art? In spite of our lip service to it and in spite of many very fine creative achievements, I fear that much of […]
[…] journal and a much-needed outlet for Mormon writers and artists. What an exciting thought! Though I was getting married in the fall, and did not know where I would be when Gene’s dream materialized, […]
[…] stake. By construing him as an artist and the vision as a creative act analogous to the writing of a novel, Laxness has tempered the meaning of “vision.” Novelists believe in the reality of […]
As this book about the sainted mothers of Mormonism was coming off the press, President Spencer Kimball was preparing his opening address for the 148th Annual Conference of the Church. Remembering the Utah IWY fiasco […]