[…] Welch—president and founder of the John Birch Society. The two became close friends and developed a shared worldview over the problems that they believed had plagued American society: hippie culture, rock-and-roll music, the Vietnam […]
[…] Smith’s early career. Since the 1980s Hoffman forgeries and then Michael Quinn’s Early Mormonism and the Magic Worldview, and others, folk magic was a big topic. This paper looks at three phases of the […]
[…] a single seed. Some are mirrors, with each element corresponding to a specific parallel in our own world for the purposes of allegory. Some are photocopies, carefully repeating standard tropes, while others are stadiums, […]
Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 61–71
THE WORLD IS RAPIDLY CHANGING as new technologies change the way we think, act, and live. This is particularly true with the many changes biology has wrought in our lives […]
[…] remembers in this context Gerard Manley Hopkins’s lovely allusion to the Holy Spirit who, “over the bent/ World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”) Even though recorded third-hand, the following account […]
Dialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 22–31
This study addresses poetry within the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and defines an RLDS poet as someone who belongs to the RLDS church and who […]
[…] and on, in Mex ico and Cuba. I’m as attached to them as any place in the world. In 1956, I enlisted in the Green Berets along with two other Mormon boys. Soon thereafter […]
[…] she said. He looked up, his face one of confusion and terror. There is more in this world than I ever understood. But I believe him. By hell, I believe him. I had to […]
[…] faith. It is no longer beyond her, as it was before her conversion, to consider the spirit world viable, the distance between mortals and their predecessors, small. It is something she sometimes hopes for, […]
[…] York, and in Salt Lake City—perhaps outside every window from which she was destined to view the world—Leila knew women walked about without veils, without male escorts, without fear and shame, able to reach […]