Riding Herd: A Conversation with Juanita Brooks
April 27, 2018[…] Mother for tending the baby. When I got through, I didn’t have much, you see, even to buy shoes. Well, when I went to settle tithing, the bishop said I had it all wrong, […]
[…] Mother for tending the baby. When I got through, I didn’t have much, you see, even to buy shoes. Well, when I went to settle tithing, the bishop said I had it all wrong, […]
[…] growth of Mormonism. Mormonism is fundamentalism turned against itself. I have no desire to contend with Professor Brown over which is the central dogma of traditional Christian orthodoxy. I certainly respect his opinion. He says […]
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[…] hills with uncommon vigor—at length we managed by considerable whiping hooping yeling etc. to get up some 3 or 4 hills, but in going down one, the Cart capsized plumb bottom up with Br. […]
[…] the University of Utah, I amused myself by writing feature articles for the Utah Chronicle. They c overed such important topics as my phobias, advice on dating, pseudo surveys. One day, the father of […]
At the second annual meeting of the Association for Mormon Letters, as at the first, two literary concerns seemed to have emerged. Not so surprisingly, at the bottom of both these issues was the […]
[…] fiction. Too many writers in the Church overrate the uniqueness of the Mormon experience as a source for literary art. More precisely, they overrate the external and superficial characteristics of that experience while at […]
[…] of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Vol. II (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 19 65) pp. 381-412. It is important to recognize that, while Joseph Smith did not teach a systematic […]
[…] Mormonism, received wide distribution. First published among the Senate Documents as the Surgeon General’s Statistical Report (18 60), it was almost immediately reprinted in medical journals all over the United States, eventually finding its way […]
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