[…] Mormon literature apart to the remarkably similar extremes of right-wing and left-wing piety and cultural correctness and mutual exclusion. Of course, there are honorable exceptions, which all of us should encourage by careful read […]
[…] of our own and assist them with their problems.” “Messages of the First Presidency: Humanitarian Aid,” Church News, week ending 6 Oct. 2001, 2. “My plea—and I wish I were more eloquent in voicing […]
[…] 1895, the editors of a small journal known as The Index (an obscure periodical produced by the Mutual Improvement Association of Salt Lake City’s Twentieth Ward) submitted the following inquiry to ten prominent Church […]
[…] as big as cars, lay black and cold, nearly invisible. Having searched since the beginning of the world, this devil found the man in a clapboard house on the edge of an Idaho town […]
<i>Dialogue 54.1 (Spring 2021): 17–28</i><br> Huston argues that we should interpret that text in its historical context and glean from it new possibilities. Drawing on feminist interpretive strategies, Huston reads for the “theological trajectory,” […]
[…] a single seed. Some are mirrors, with each element corresponding to a specific parallel in our own world for the purposes of allegory. Some are photocopies, carefully repeating standard tropes, while others are stadiums, […]
[…] that was written by missionary Jedediah Morgan Grant to Joseph Smith, which contained information about Susan Hough Conrad and her brief love writings with a missionary who was serving in England named Lorenzo Dow Barnes.
[…] certainly show interest trends—to claim no more for them—it is to be doubted that Sunday School outlines, Mutual Improvement Association manuals, and most of the other literature of religious education in the Church would […]
[…] search. It is a weaving of the best that is thought and felt and done in the world into the warp and woof of the national life and character. It is even more than […]
[…] the Book of Mormon have had a discordant dialogue for some time. The scripture asserts, for example, that the civilizations it describes in ancient America had their fundamental inspiration in migrations from the Near East.