[…] doesn’t have much of anything to say. To be sure there is a voluminous body of Mormon writing on many subjects, but the overwhelming majority of this work is homiletic and is meant to […]
[…] the Mormon Mother in Heaven with the female deity Asherah. I have long admired Kevin Barney’s research, writing, and opinions. So it is with some regret that I feel compelled to point out some […]
[…] Kim came to the conclusion that ac counting really was boring. He toyed with the dream of writing a novel, but it always remained a dream. Though he read a lot of fiction—not the […]
[…] Priesthood (1995), David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism (2005), and Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History (2016), and has served on the Dialogue board of directors for over 15 […]
[…] Mormonism” although concedes that his conversion “shocked the world.” Finally, Target Zero: Eldridge Cleaver a Life in Writing, edited by Cleaver’s one-time wife, Kathleen, makes no mention whatsoever of his Mormon interlude. This article […]
[…] gives one of his daughters, Zipporah, to Moses to become his wife. Now to John’s account. In writing this account, John doesn’t have Jesus ask just any woman for a drink of water. Rather, […]
Join Dialogue Editor Taylor Petrey as he interviews Tanner Davidson McAlister about his article, “The Production of the Book of Mormon in Light of a Tibetan Buddhist Parallel” for our 39th episode of Dialogue Out…
[…] mentioned in the article that all the participants were his students, is one of the finest fiction writing instructors, having been guided, encouraged, and restructured through those first pitiful drafts of fiction at the […]
[…] national defense,” are largely rooted in this tradition. Also important is the work of the American Friends Service Committee, rooted in the Quaker tradition, which provides alternatives to war for current political problems. THE […]
[…] object of Americanist literary study” (1). A footnote to this passage gives nine examples from prominent Americanists writing between 1945 and 2016—each lamenting that the Book of Mormon has never received the attention it […]