[…] for a dead person. When printed Bibles or Torahs are worn out—and the Torah is all Jewish writing containing God’s name in this case—they are not tossed out. They are buried, or they are […]
[…] “To Give Oneself,” Donna Turley illustrates this point slightly differently: Unlike other gifts, the true gift—of oneself—not writing, nor creation, nor a representation of in some possession . . . can only be given […]
[…] is taking place, not within the official structure, but among the Church’s intellectuals, as typified by the writing of the New Mormon History. Although the hierarchy appears to tolerate this new direction as witness […]
[…] also filled with male pronouns. He abounds. Gender-free or gender inclusive language is becoming the norm in writing unless a per son’s identity is clear, and the insistence on clinging to the now obsolete […]
[…] prophet of the liberated sexual instinct, Lawrence responded to critics who called Lady Chatterley’s Lover pornographic by writing a pugnacious essay entitled “Pornography and Obscenity.” I personally find his definition of pornography persuasive: It […]
[…] copying new figures, pursing her lips, returning to the notebooks and then the slips of paper, erasing, writing, always intent. I couldn’t tell what she was doing. I had to stop watching. Greg and […]
[…] sonal and ecclesiastical progress. We need high quality submissions. We cannot sponsor the research or the creative writing. Authors must be willing to write, submit, handle temporary rejection, refine, resubmit, and finally achieve. We […]
[…] summer of 1986, Meg died. She spent some of her last moments preparing her funeral service and writing a letter to her friends to be read by her daughter. In the letter she asked […]
[…] early 1960s the Church educational system no longer encouraged intellectual pursuits with its earlier enthusiasm. Research and writing on controversial matters, at least, would henceforth have to be done primarily by Latter-day Saint professors […]
[…] had survived a hair-raising escape from Russia” (p. 14). For a time he nurtured Mary’s hopes of writing for The Improvement Era, and he “even talked of laminating my little testimonies for possible missionary […]