Drawing from his book, The J. Golden Kimball Stories—the first scholarly analysis of J. Golden Kimball stories in their cultural, psychological, and historical context—professor Eric A. Eliason shares and elucidates old favorites, as well as some little known but quite delightful “Uncle Golden” yarns.
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Among many claimants for possible literary influence on the Book of Mormon (1830), no one that we know of has yet nominated Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803), published in four volumes by the English novelist Jane Porter (1775–1850). I will present the case at length, and then invite responses from Miranda and Bauer.
I don’t want to let go of the rod. I don’t want to drift off and end up on paths that are dark, strange, and lonely. Sometimes I worry I may have already wandered without…
Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library has recently launched the Mormon Literature Database (http://MormonLit.lib.byu.edu), a comprehensive bibliography of all literary writings by or about Mor mons, destined to be an invaluable resource to scholars…
In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, Dialogue Art Editor Margaret Olsen Hemming sits down with Carrie Ellen Carlisle, the cover artist for the Winter 2024 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. They discuss Carlisle’s artistic journey,…
In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, Dialogue Art Editor Margaret Olsen Hemming sits down with Carrie Ellen Carlisle, the cover artist for the Winter 2024 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. They discuss Carlisle’s artistic journey,…
The writing, production, and responses associated with The God Who Weeps reveal something of the multiplicity of “Mormonisms.” In this podcast, Terryl and Fiona discuss some of the ways in which we construct our faith identity, and how we might rethink the interconnections of Mormonism as an institution, a community, a belief structure, and a devotional template.
I am very proud of the excellent content we have published in this last year. In 2024, we published two roundtables on racism. We published numerous groundbreaking articles on the Book of Mormon. The forthcoming…
Amy Watkins Jensen looks at the story of the brother of Jared anew, in this latest Gospel Study lesson Amy Watkins Jensen is a teacher and writer with a BA in Spanish Teaching and an…
The life of Maurine Whipple, lauded Mormon author of the 1941 novel The Giant Joshua, is one of the saddest stories in LDS literature. She loved her people, the tough and hardscrabble settlers of St.…