[…] Mormon History: An Update.” The introduction said the article was a repeat of a survey conducted twenty -four years earlier and reported in Dialogue in the spring of 1969. I recalled the article, had […]
[…] with bow and arrows, confronted each other in the Stansbury Mountains west of Tooele, a small, two -year–old settlement some twenty–five miles southwest of Salt Lake City. The first man, Jacob Vernon Hamblin, a […]
[…] this way that we participate in the divine nature. Then he outlines a set of practices including goodness or virtue, knowledge, self -control, endurance, mutual affection, and love. This is the path to becoming divine.
[…] Boyle, a suffering videographer and aspiring screenwriter, is failing to sell his latest story to a well -tanned and successful Hollywood producer. After rejecting Eric’s work, the producer complains to him that if he […]
Mormons and vampires—a strange combination, indeed. Stephenie Meyer first brought them together in her mock -epic series of Twilight novels, a contemporary literary phenomenon that sprang, true to the classic gothic impulse, from the […]
[…] to be chased. Finally someone answered. The door had been mine, but the sound of an actual human voice startled me into silence. Ben, of course, was quick to come to the rescue. Before […]
[…] believe that many (not all, but many) norms reflect essential characteristics of the way the majority of human beings has historically related and will continue to relate to one another. And I further believe […]
[…] been an initiate for only a short time into the secret order of those who know that human beings create offspring in the manner of cattle, horses, and hogs. It was one thing to […]
[…] in the summer of 2004 when I confronted a stack of books on the emergence of second -wave feminism. I relived my own life as I read accounts of feminist awakenings in Chapel Hill, […]
[…] preoccupation with structural collapse legitimizes a critical consideration of the way that language functions in the book, rendering the Book of Mormon particularly well -suited to a reading that employs the techniques of post–structural criticism.