[…] near-irresistible impulse to make a new scholarly statement. They should provide instead, he proposed, “a summing up —interpretive, sensitive, thoughtful, individual, even personal—of what seems significant about his or her state’s history.” Charles S. […]
Mormonism throughout much of its rather brief, history has stirred emotional responses from a large portion of the American populace. What began in the 1830’s as persecution and a forced flight to the West has […]
[…] be in serious trouble if he were to spend any time with Mormons in Egypt. He dared not ignore these instructions because he knew this would only aggravate his status as a “renegade.” (His […]
[…] fresh and fragrant circle of its private rain. She stood still as if listening, remembering another magic —signals from The World. The World was anywhere outside The Kingdom of God to which had come […]
[…] would want our samplers to hang in our homes after we were married. Through family, church and social rituals and practices, the goal of marriage as the proper and only lifestyle was emphasized. The […]
[…] the medieval monks were reminded by the skulls they carried around. Yet despite good evidence we find it hard to believe that death will come to us. Surely we should prepare for the end […]
[…] be taken halfway or one that is particularly easy in these times to make transparent in fiction. —Flannery O’Connor The flaws of Mormon fiction are many. But so are the possibilities. Neither in the […]
[…] state could not long continue, and two “thus saith the lord” revelations to Church President John Taylor —on 13 October 1882 and 14 April 1883—triggered major reconstructions of the work and the quorums of […]
In this small room
the bishop sits like God
Himself
broad farmer face upon
[…] thought about coming there to live in a rock cave I had found high in the canyon —perhaps with Dee Christiansen, my companion in Saturday-long Tarzan adventures, perhaps with Margene Ware, my first serious […]