[…] and polygamy is described in terms of its sympathy for homeless, helpless women. Of his care in writing sympathetically about the Church, Laxness comments: Imperative to me when writing Paradise Reclaimed was never to […]
[…] Visions in a Seer Stone’s primary contribution to the field is its deep engagement with the sermon- writing cultures in play during Smith’s lifetime. Smith would have encountered a variety of preaching styles before […]
[…] the range of joy through sorrow. I love the craft of words, I find spiritual expression in writing, and I revel in the spiritual tension and expanse of scripture, poetry, and story. I feel […]
[…] a mission, she went domestically to Idaho. The Church’s current protocol allows undocumented missionaries to perform their service domestically so service can occur without compromising residency in the US. It was on her mission […]
[…] do that.” “I don’t fault you for it. But it does pose a problem, doesn’t it—a Mormon service one Sunday, a Baptist service the next? What’s more, according to these instructions, we can’t badmouth […]
[…] as real feminists and which do not? Do any of us? When I was in graduate school writing a dissertation on a forgotten woman author of eighteenth-century Germany, I was told on multiple occasions […]
[…] same was true with Joseph Smith. Ultimately Clayton’s letter was destroyed (see below). For the notice of writing the June letter see William Clayton’s journal, Jun. 2, 1843, as found in George D. Smith, […]
[…] and, when complete, contained 9, 12, 13, and 13 horizontal lines, respectively, of progressively more cramped hieratic writing. P. JS I contains all that has survived of the vignette and lines 1—5. It is […]
[…] Latter day Saint scholars to write in defense of their Prophet’s first vision story. In all their writing they have assumed that Joseph Smith’s account must be correct wherever it is at variance with […]
[…] forced the adaptation of courses of study to bridge the gap between opposing cultures and values. The writing of textbooks, in the sciences and humanities as well as in religion, fostered experimentation with creative […]