A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing. Samuel Butler the Younger, Life and Habit Reader who…
[…] older children were grim and defiant, the smaller ones restless. At last, thankfully, came the closing prayer —more platitudes, more meaningless bromides. The good brother offering it was sincere enough, but laboring under the […]
The New English Bible was produced to enhance modern readers’ understanding of the Bible’s content. The recommendation of the multidenominational committee that initiated the translation project in October of 1946 was “that a completely new […]
Intensive research in the area of Mormon origins in New York in recent years has resulted in a significant addition to the source material available to scholars. One who has contributed significantly to this effort…
As man is now constituted, to be brief is almost a condition of being inspired. George Santayana, Little Essays The reason why so few good books are written, is that so few people who can write know anything. Bagehot, […]
The Victorian Ideal of Womanhood doesn’t seem so disadvantageous to girls thrust into a hostile world “on their own.” When you remain single, society takes away the advantages of being a girl and forces […]
As Mr. Fetzer’s article in this issue of Dialogue makes clear, Bernard DeVoto grew up a Catholic, not a Mormon. What is more, he grew up in a house dominated by his father, and his […]
[…] At St. Olaf I found the students also on strike and just as concerned about the issues —working as hard or harder to turn out information and argument through a strike center in the […]
I never intended to leave Utah. In fact, I didn’t leave until I was sixteen, and that was only a trip to my father’s hometown in Wyoming. I didn’t make it to California until I…
[…] movement in human affairs can hardly be said even to approach completeness until the evidence from literature is in.” —Seymour L. Gross “. . . Clio . . . has a dignity and integrity revealed all the […]