[…] the most distinguished prizes for the short story offered in America. For Darrell, his “life is about writing and what it means”-inventing a world, rather than mirroring one—and he hopes “to write stories that […]
[…] the Roosevelt administration in the 1930s and the expansion of the New Deal during the Great Depression. Writing within the context of a conservative reaction to President Jimmy Carter’s administration in the late 1970s, […]
<i>Dialogue 52.2 (Summer 2019):37–58</i><br>Ryan Thomas highlights the different metal writing cultures from around the same time as the Book of Mormon periods to see if it is historically likely for the Gold Plates to […]
[…] Arch Masons. Researchers before Forsberg have noted that Royal Arch Masonry has a legend about finding lost writing on a gold plate hidden in an underground vault, recalling Smith’s claim to have translated the […]
[…] Tropiques, French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss recorded a story of unintended social impact evoked by his introduction of writing to the illiterate Nambikwara of tropical Brazil. Several days after Levi-Strauss distributed paper and pencils as […]
[…] the John Birch Society. Two weeks later Brown responded to an inquiry about the Birch Society by writing that “we are definitely against their methods.” On the heels of Benson’s widely publicized talk, Brown […]
[…] have passed since Dialogue last published an issue entirely devoted to Mormon literature. In the meantime literary writing about Latter-day Saints has been burgeoning both in LDS and national markets—so much so that it […]
[…] will go a long way toward making sister missionaries feel more welcome, but continued emphasis on missionary service being a priesthood duty, explicit statements about optional versus expected service, and subtle verbal and visual […]
[…] (Summer 1994): 83–153</i><br>Believing that a more efficient approach could be used to the church’s advantage, he proposed that the Relief Society organize a social service department where these new techniques could be tested and implemented.
[…] As instructed by church headquarters, regional leaders have told local members to conceal their Mormon affiliation when writing against same-sex marriage to newspapers or elected officials. Rather than being a spontaneous expression of citizenship, […]