[…] was an amazing poet, whose verses mix classical Islamic theology, Sufi mysticism, and a deep understanding of human nature. Virtually unknown in the Western world until the 1995 translation, The Essential Rumi, by Coleman Barks […]
[…] mean (as it is so often quoted as meaning) that other people are inherently hellish, or that human beings cannot face the irreducible otherness of people not themselves. Sartre puts this line in his […]
Who is speaking at our “Spirit of Dialogue” conference on September 30th at UVU? Speakers will include Dialogue luminaries Armand Mauss, Darius Gray, Alice Faulkner Burch, Ignacio Garcia, Gabrielle Blair, Patrick Mason, Meg Conly, Greg Prince, Michael Austin, Ben Park, Courtney Clark Kendrick, Paul Reeve, and Eric Samuelsen and more discussing LDS art, the issues surrounding Mormon groupthink, the place of Dialogue within Mormon studies and more. Find biographies of the presenters here.
[…] found in Irvine a community of Mormon grad students getting their doctorates in various fields in the humanities. We also discovered that renowned retired sociologist Armand Mauss lived locally. We soon began to meet […]
[…] But there is a certain Mormon textuality that emerges from these pages: experimental, provocative, heartfelt, and profoundly human. It is this essential humanity that lies at the root of Mormonism both as a lived […]
Shawn Vestal. Daredevils. New York: Penguin Press, 2016. 308 pp.
Reviewed by Julie J. Nichols
It’s a hard truth: you have to be damn smart to be a writer of good fiction. If you’re dumb, forget it. You have to hear words in your head—and who doesn’t? But you also have to know how to put them together in a sentence that’s not only grammatical but original in its context, truer than any other sentence could possibly be. Then you have to do that with paragraphs and chapters in the service of a whole whose shape knocks readers right out of unconsciousness, makes them alive, blasts their eyes open so they see the world new.
[…] sprinkled with healthy doses of goof. But this time the only prerequisite for the course is being human, of any variety: a music lover; a seventh grader; a bowler; a thinker; a dad; a […]
[…] Graham’s artist statement: “Prophets have taught that our heavenly parents work together for the salvation of the human family.” This polyptych landscape contains symbols of our Heavenly Family and the plan of salvation. The […]
[…] situates them in a larger discussion about whether or not Native Americans should be included in the human genealogy outlined in the Bible. “The Book of Mormon,” she explains, “explicitly takes sides in a […]
[…] love for you to meet him.” What? Had those questions she’d asked before been about an actual human? The idea of a date filled me with anxiety because I almost never went on proper […]