[…] Anderson 489 The last example I’ll mention here was D. Michael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1987). In 1985, when the Salamander Letter was at its […]
[…] imagined scenarios, letters with no hope of an answer. His “Short Address to the Assassins of the World” zings with a pestering playfulness: “First, why the three names? Must everyone in the club be […]
[…] size-medium” src=”https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Dark-Watch-200×300.jpg” alt=”dark-watch” width=”200″ height=”300″ /> Mormonism from Varied Fictional Perspectives William Morris. Dark Watch and Other Mormon- American Stories. A Motley Vision, 2015. 124 pp. E-book: $2.99. Reviewed by Jonathan Langford Short story collections […]
[…] forms of our concepts of him and the inflexible forms of our response to him in the world; unable to let our confidence wax strong in his presence through the feeling that our lives […]
[…] members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it is largely unknown to the broader world. Kingdom of Nauvoo is the first attempt since Robert Flanders, over fifty years ago, to try and […]
[…] Hickman speaks on his essay “The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse,” which was published in American Literature, a literary journal published by Duke University Press. 
[…] much more, to speak about the idea of the church being the fastest growing church in the world. From the Miller Eccles website: Chances are we’ve all heard someone say, “We are the fastest […]
[…] insists on calling us “the Mormons,” which for me conjures up something from the 1964–1965 New York World’s Fair—and more to the substance of the point insists that this book IS NOT A WORK […]
[…] Robert Orsi to good effect. His linguistics training also bubbles through. Brown details a rich and vivid world with Smith “manipulating complex conceptual structures” while aware of the danger when scholars impose their views […]
[…] of their vocation across the centuries (with Percy Shelley’s defiant “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” being perhaps the most notorious). However, plenty of other poets have in turn questioned why they […]