[…] a penetrating and often profound way. Having a “subject”—in other words focusing on a significant aspect of human experience—is what distinguishes Frost in the Orchard from most Mormon fiction. Too many writers in the […]
[…] Of course this imposition by a group is not just inevitable; it is the very condition of human existence. As inevitably, the Mormon writer brings his unique experience to probe and define the complexities […]
[…] and to know one’s identity. And, on a deeper level, both peoples were responding to that basic human need to locate their identity in some kind of universe that was logically consistent with their […]
[…] . The notes tumbled easily from the very soul of him.” So besides being the emblem of human goodness, Rich also comes to symbolize, and perhaps symbolized even in David’s childhood, a sort of […]
[…] now live an “either/or” existence which is less than satisfying and which diminishes the richness of the human experience. The separation of mind from body, spirit from matter, subject from object can be subsumed […]
[…] to measure its mass. But a clouded sky stretched over those people, that land. As in all human endeavor, strong men can survive, but it takes a good man to live. There were good […]
[…] by Joe Munroe, with several fine photographs. The continuing dominance of the landscape in the face of human incursion is suggested in several of the frames. Taken as a group, however, the photographs seem […]
[…] rich symbolism and indispensable reality of the ordinances and the significance of the temple in binding the human family together. The point here is that Joseph Smith gave us the whole thing, and it […]
[…] the eighteenth century was to rid the world of superstition. It questioned all assumptions, all propositions about human life that were not verified by the senses—the common senses that we all share. It was […]
[…] inviting the membership to attach flesh to the bones of its convictions in a world of critical human need. The Conferences of 1976 and 1978 reveal still further attempts at refinement with respect to […]