[…] cue him from placement with a Mormon family. The friends have studied the culture and are dressed for the part with white shirts and ties, they know they can’t smoke and must “stick together […]
“If there was every a person, in terms of social justice in our society, for fairness, it would have been David O. McKay. Had it been up to him, alone, he would have given […]
[…] spent a professional lifetime reading, teaching, and writing about literary texts. Much of my interest in and approach to the Book of Mormon lies with the text—though not just as a field for scholarly exploration.
[…] 1840S, founding Mormon prophet Joseph Smith introduced members of his young church to the ordinances of baptism for the dead (1840), eternal marriage (1841), and eternal proxy marriage (1842). These ordinances, and the doctrine […]
[…] illnesses to enable longer, more productive lives to be led. Unfortunately, these same techniques can be used for evil, as recently witnessed by the anthrax bioterrorism attacks. How will these current and future discoveries […]
For more than fifty years, the conflict between Palestinian Arab nationalism and Jewish Zionism has been one of the most protracted and seemingly irreconcilable conflicts in the world. Most people have difficulties discussing […]
[…] return to Provo, his Aunt Doris gave him three dollars, which he carried in change to pay for his food. In the jungles the hobos cooked together, and if a hobo wanted a bowl […]
[…] It had, like a raised and clenched fist, a four-on-the floor Hurst. On the dash, a tach. For the world to covet, chrome reverse wheels you could eat off. Jack buzzed the big garage […]
For the last several years I have had the opportunity to serve on the Mormon History Association’s book awards committee. That assignment— in addition to my day job as Curator of Special Collections […]
[…] course, brings me to Mormons, a self-identifying peculiar people and arguably their own ethnic group. The marketing for My Big Fat Greek Wedding revolves around that film’s graphic title in which a number of […]