[…] history, becomes instead a largely polemical attack on some whom Alexander considers critics of his way of writing Mormon history. Obviously historians hold profoundly different opinions on how to write Mormon history, differences that […]
[…] with excellent grades and I, in turn, longed to have Tommy become a professor. I imagined him writing wonderful history books with my silent, invisible help, and I saw myself entertaining his fascinating colleagues. […]
[…] here to prove ourselves. At Brigham Young University, my junior year, I won a $10 prize for writing the best Christmas story for the Y News; then in the spring I was awarded the […]
[…] of homosexuality and the Mormon response is documented. Since this is a compilation of many authors, the writing is occasionally uneven and repetitive. The seven personal perspectives by gays and lesbians all follow a […]
[…] such as these are more easily explored with the aide of hypertext tools. For example, in my essay “Apologetic and Critical Assumptions about Book of Mormon Historicity,” I noted that some Book of Mormon […]
Recently returning from ten years of foreign service in the Middle East, a friend mentioned that he was frequently asked how the United States successfully excludes religion from politics. My friend noted that to […]
I am not a historian. But my limited exposure to the discipline tells me that writing history involves arriving at definitions of “eras,” “cultures,” and “movements.” In my work in literary theory, I have […]
[…] is washable except her shoes. “What do you mean, your sources?” asked Darla last week. “You aren’t writing about your clients.” She paused for Noreen’s confirmation and, when she didn’t get it, went on. […]
[…] facilitate a better understanding of Joseph Smith’s early career,” Hullinger attempted to dis cover Smith’s motives for writing the book by examining the book’s rhetoric, and concluded: “Joseph Smith … regarded himself as de […]
[…] nothing hidden is morally defensible—even as we and they violate that “sincerity” every day. Hypocrisy in Creative Writing One of the great probings of defensible and indefensible kinds of “total sincerity” is Moliere’s he […]