[…] the narrative without tiresome repetition of the point. Another device is his syntactical rendering of Dutch into English: while he translates each word into English, he leaves the Dutch syntax intact, resulting in a […]
[…] Next Mormons, Jana Riess has authored a number of other books, including Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor, which was selected as one of […]
The newest Dialogue podcast features Dr. Jared Hickman, Assistant Professor in the English Department of Johns Hopkins University. Professor Hickman speaks on his essay “The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse,” which was published […]
[…] the diamonds of divine principles and moral teachings have been “draped and muffled,” putting into supposedly plain English what, for some reason, the prophets, apostles, and other writers of scripture seem to have failed […]
[…] and Mormon studies, providing both a strong overview and new approaches, ideas, and directions for further re search. Topical essays occasionally lead to some repetition, most egregiously in the chapters covering LGBTQ+ topics, but […]
[…] visitations. These stories are stitched together (the word sutra means “thread” and is the root word for English words such as suture) that, when unfurled, reveal a larger cosmic pattern or theme. And there […]
Adam McLain is a MA/PhD student in the English department and first-year writing instructor at the University of Connecticut. He writes and researches on dystopian literature, legal theory, and sexual ethics. His recent publications […]
[…] most of the night, anticipating some message. None came. The pressure to marry increased almost to my breaking point. It seemed everyone wanted to line me up with “a friend.” Even total strangers called […]
[…] the afternoon of November 5, 2015 I was chatting on Face-book with other leaders of Affirmation when news of the policy began to break in social media. It wasn’t until I saw copies of […]
[…] (1905-06): 712–13; reprinted in Defense of the Faith and the Saints, Vol. 1 (Salt Lake City, Deseret News, 1907–1912), 310. Seamus Heaney, Poems: 1965–1975 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966), 40, 49. “Solus,” […]