In this special episode of the Dialogue Journal Podcast, we shine a spotlight on Family Proclamations, a thought-provoking show in the Dialogue Podcast Network hosted by award-winning journalist Blair Hodges. Family Proclamations explores the history…
[…] my budget, and signals my husband and children that mom’s in the kitchen, all’s right with the world. Why are L.D.S. women caught so inexorably in the “home-made bread” syndrome? For some it seems […]
[…] to Hollywood that she turned, and not to the false glamour we are known for around the world. Instead she focused on the kind of women she, as a liberated woman, felt made America […]
[…] of my hair, war,” and in his nightmares is suddenly grown-up and suddenly irrational like the grown-up world. LORRAINE secretes vats of grey matter in her organic, pulsating room, creates swirling abstracts which she […]
[…] a positive attitude toward polygamy. The wives she knew were proud and honored to be chosen to share in the highest exaltation in the Kingdom of God. A common saying was “I’d rather have […]
[…] the fundamental tension between history and literature as well as the common ground and goals these two disciplines share. That this tension is real is illustrated by Leland Fetter’s article on Bernard DeVoto and by […]
[…] I don’t care what you do—outside of art, or leaving the church . . . English, science, music, teaching—anything— but art . . . or writing— radio, TV, acting— the out […]
[…] for my eyes was the lion that jumped Through the hoop At the bidding of the trainer, How different the world when emptied of lions Except those that sleep gorged in a cage.
When Samuel W. Taylor began toying with the idea of writing on the Nauvoo period of Mormon history, his editor undoubtedly pointed out that as fiction the subject was strictly a zero. Who would believe…
Andrew Karl Larson’s Erastus Snow: The Life of a Missionary and Pioneer for the Early Mormon Church is a biography written, as the author candidly points out in his preface, “at the behest of Erastus…