[…] 1998):59–83</i><br>THE BOOK OF MORMON HAS OCCASIONALLY been portrayed as a deficient first novel. Its characters appear flat and stereotypical; the plots and characters seem to lack moral subtlety; and so on. Should we wonder […]
[…] but said it way too much. “You look better, Charles. Doesn’t Charles look better? How is Charles today? Better?” Dad decided he was going to let me live with Mom. He called it a […]
[…] to situate my comments. A well-known scholar of nineteenth-century American religion visits a seminar in which I am enrolled. Realizing that we must have mutual acquaintances, I introduce myself during a class break. Sure […]
My grandma died three years ago. What I have of her now is a collection of odds and ends of memories. I have a few physical reminders: her senior class ring from Jordan High […]
[…] windstorm, perhaps, which ever visited Salt Lake, prevailed between 10:30 and 12 o’clock noon,” declared the Deseret News in describing the storm, “the destruction . . . was beyond precedent here.” “The air was […]
[…] my brow in skeptical doubt. “Yeah.” “Why don’t they just come get you?” “Don’t know where I am, man!” he laughed, a bit too long, relishing his cleverness. He was untouchable, I imagine now, […]
[…] defines the idea of progress as the notion that mankind has advanced in the past from barbarism and ignorance, is now advancing, and will continue to advance through the foreseeable future. It is arguably […]
[…] claims of Mormonism depend. The worlds of mythos and logos on the page were coming to me live and in predictable collision from across the room. Nor was it lost on me that both […]
<i>Dialogue 36.3 (2003): 53-80</i><br> Compton considers priesthood as portrayed in Old Testament texts and how women are underrepresented in today’s discourse.
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