[…] that “we will yet have Shakespeares and Miltons of our own.” Mormon writers have been so excited, overwhelmed, and preoccupied by this statement that we still remember Whitney in the name of the biggest […]
[…] on the back of a suspicious-looking soup can; down the aisle, a woman haggles with the butcher over a pound of lamb. “Adam didn’t see the difference between their loins until he tasted the […]
Thus Clinton Larson in an interview published in Dialogue for Autumn 1969. Dr. Larson, whom Karl Keller has described as the first “Mormon poet,” also affirmed a hope that “If . . . literary […]
[…] individual members of that society. Part of my search was a religious quest. One day I en countered two missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when they were tracting in […]
[…] Enlightenment. In time a radi cally different world view surfaced in their writings: a mechanical universe g overned by immutable natural laws; God removed and separated from his creation; moral law taking the place […]
[…] sit in the privilege of their ancestor’s stories—stories and ideologies that give them a sense of power over other people. I’ve weathered their slurs: their drunken Indian jokes, their poor Indian jokes, their dirty […]
Dialogue 14.1 (Spring 1981): 9–19 Anderson shares how temple architecture changed starting with the Salt Lake Temple.
[…] are members, too, who apply this type of logic, but they are usually more open about their over-all negative attitude toward the Church. They honestly admit that they don’t think the Church is an […]
Dialogue 15.2 (Summer 1982): 48–68 Van Wagoner and Walker focus on the seer stones that Joseph Smith used in the Book of Mormon translation process.
Dialogue 25 .1 (Spring 1992): 13–36
A historical analysis of the globalization of the Church. Under President David O McKay, the Church was able to reach out to more people beyond North America and Europe, […]