[…] 1940s, saw the emergence of a group of Mormon regionalists whose goal was not to create an alto gether new literature or an art subservient to the building up of Zion but to capture in […]
[…] Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. Much of the growth stems from the United States military presence where LDS servicemen and United States government officials take seriously the motto “every member a missionary.” Before the tragic […]
[…] be defended, they will never stand the strict scrutiny of the word of life. And Sidney Rigdon, writing in 1836, asserts: The Latter Day Saints believe that Christ will prepare the way of his […]
[…] the personal voice, announcing her own intention to avoid such unworthy self disclosure. Yet here was Claudia writing in this scholarly intellectual journal about one of the most intimate of all experiences, and here […]
[…] appropriate for women, an attitude Emmeline deplored: “I can see no good, sound, wholesome reason against woman’s writing upon any of the general topics of the day,” she wrote in 1875. “She may be […]
[…] no way of knowing. Perhaps mirroring the social changes that have made singleness much more prevalent, personal writings of Latter-day Saints in the last decade sound less defensive. The “single condition is not a […]
[…] School Prayer Problem Many people believe that more school prayer is desirable, and one obvious way to get it is to amend the Constitution. During its 1984 session the U.S. Senate considered a number […]
[…] their authors understood those events. Thus what they seem to be telling us is that these authors, writing between about a.d. 70 and 95, did not know any tradition of Jesus establishing a priesthood […]
[…] ideas. The others gradually dropped out, but Jensen remained committed to the project. She spent several months writing the series of lessons, only to realize after filming the first one that they all had […]
[…] better next time. Jerilyn Wake field, who teaches school in Tooele and who won one of our writing prizes for her essay about adopting her son as an unmarried woman, has been with us […]