[…] 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 […]
[…] Caridad was able to earn in a year with the mending she took in and her occasional service as someone’s laundress or housecleaner. But I had not yet considered the logistics of feeding six […]
[…] additional three months of our lives even though we had been working a whole year to “ get it out early.” Then we held up the press for the Spalding article, and now we […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] their way through school as bootleggers, which seemed interesting enough to mention in a column I was writing for the college paper. This proved to be a quick lesson in the power of the […]
[…] character, the newspaper as a corporation and as a reflection of Mormon accomodation with American culture. The writing tends to be professional in the historical sense and the subject matter treated as one would […]
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 […]
[…] the Bible is a sufficient guide to faith and salvation. Sensing this, the Protestant historian, Robert Baird, writing in 1844, unjustly included the Mormons among the infidels. No wonder that in New York the […]
[…] words “cyclical,” “revolution,” “catastrophism” and “creationism” were altogether ignored, however, in the English edition of his seminal Essay on the Theory of the Earth (1812) translated by the Scottish geologist Robert Jameson in 1813. […]
[…] theme and genre, but there are at least eight identifiable authors. If this is an experiment in writing, however, it is a successful one. Palmer’s book joins the recent biography of President Kimball as […]