[…] meeting. It must have gone overtime again. That, or she and Kathy Simpson were solving some imminent world crisis. He felt an overwhelming loneliness challenged only by fatigue. He switched on his answering machine […]
[…] raised at the prospect of nearly 500 pages devoted to “Principles of the United Order for the Modern World”? Indeed, what greater goal than to “seek to bring forth and establish the cause of Zion” […]
[…] some $1,800 to complete the work. Should the people there fail in this undertaking, it means the breaking up of the Torrey Ward. Brother Clawson now recommended, in view of the conditions set forth, […]
[…] our testimony will be judged lacking. Randall Hall’s novel Corey Davidson, described as a “well-written chronicle of breaking and contrition of hearts following transgression,” does just that. It’s a novel with a mission about […]
[…] characters and their iconography for narrative purposes of his own, Dutcher made God’s Army about the Mormon world. What Terrence McNalley’s 1989 play, The Lisbon Traviata did for gay men, God’s Army has done […]
[…] even its constitutional order. The Mormon Question portrays a period of water shed change in the constitutional world of American religion when the ante bellum ordering of law and religion was abandoned for the […]
[…] there was in Bremen, as in all of Germany, a great deal of missionary success from the 1920’s to the Second World War and again in two periods after the Second World War (1946-1964, 1972-1987).
[…] Allen: Given that religions (Quakers excepted, though not Mor mons) have been responsible for much of the world’s violence and death, where do religious people find credibility for their supposed moral authority for advocating […]
[…] short story offered in America. For Darrell, his “life is about writing and what it means”-inventing a world, rather than mirroring one—and he hopes “to write stories that will break your heart.” Douglas: What […]
[…] positive contributors. For me, it was because I lived in one of the largest cities in the world that my testimony grew strong. My testimony grew out of contrasts, out of the black-and-white distinctions […]