[…] appeared to crumble, and conflict on a myriad of levels became common. At virtually every level of human interaction—political, economic, social, cultural, military—proven formulae were cast aside in favor of other, although not necessarily […]
[…] life, rather than its panacea, its sacred, untouched center. I touched that holy center with a sweaty, human hand, and it crumpled before me. In my parents’ mind, this story likely reads as the […]
[…] as in the world, but en masse.” The necessary restrictions of the earthly period, governed by arbitrary human law, would eventually have to give way to the final heavenly free state, governed by the […]
Two decades have passed since Dialogue last published an issue entirely devoted to Mormon literature. In the meantime literary writing about Latter-day Saints has been burgeoning both in LDS and national markets—so much so that it is difficult for literary critics to keep up with this growing body of novels, plays, poetry, and literary nonfiction. It is very important, however, that they try. To have a sense of the future of Mormon literature, it is vital that we see how present writings articulate with traditions from the past.
[…] that practicing hypocrisy upward is essential not just to any church but to any form of hopeful human life. As I read this now, ask yourself whether we church members would be better off […]
[…] our culture for managing personal and social dilemmas involving virtue, justice, evil, truth, and every sort of human relationship as well as how to resolve those dilemmas. When the media offer many options instead […]
[…] “all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction” would soon reappear in my thinking. As for poetry, it came […]
[…] and prayer, to comprehend what it would mean to be homosexual. Most of my comprehension of this human phenomenon comes from counseling Latter-day Saint homosexuals over the past fifteen years. As I have spent […]
[…] reality of the individual, a genuine concern for his dignity and worth, and a full measure of human sympathy. It was not an accident that Jeremiah, who may have been the first of the […]
[…] old) agreed to assume leadership over a group of former Mormons who had rejected the teachings of human divinization and the related doc trine of plural marriage. This group, officially known as the Reorganized […]