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Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2013):188–206The scripture I have in mind, of course, is the Book of Mormon. What follows is a Gentile’s appreciation—even recommendation—of this well–known but largely unread example of worldclass scripture.
[…] speaking, of course, of The Travels of Marco Polo, written by one Rustichello of Pisa, a romance -writer who spent time in jail with Marco Polo in 1298 and claims to have recorded Polo’s […]
F. LaMond Tullis’s Grass Roots in Mexico: Stories of Pioneering Latter -day Saints explores the lives of nineteen people who influenced the founding and growth of Mormonism in Mexico. Tullis is a retired professor […]
[…] from the Bible, is meant to imply that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints paved their own path in establishing a distinct culture. The practice of polygamy, belief in […]
[…] language in order to listen to it, to listen for the “muse’s” whispers, has been a decades -long effort. When I read Dayna Patterson’s poems, I again appreciate the dedication of the craft. Her […]
[…] of time, information, and retrospect in recording quotidian experiences to nuance or even complicate overarching, typically top -down interpretations of history, known in the field as metanarratives. As Kline notes in her introduction and […]
[…] when they saw the scars across my chest they made me come before their king, his war -chief, council chiefs, and tell the story I had kept concealed, or die. I’d learned the people’s […]
[…] It was a cultural promise, of course, taking its traditional place in a long series of Latter -day Saint customs and sayings. What I love about the new collection from Michael Fillerup is that […]
[…] of Baal, but gives them no fire to burn the offering. The priests call on Baal all day, even mutilating themselves in desperation, but no fire comes to consume their sacrifice. Elijah dresses his […]