“Our Refined Heavenly Home”
. Elder Douglas L. Callister of the Seventy wrote a delightful article in this month’s Ensign, “Our Refined Heavenly Home.” I’m ashamed to admit that I might never have read it had not my dear wife...
View ArticleToo sacred for public consumption -or- Disgusting the prophet’s wife
. One of the great heroes in my family’s history is Mary Lee. She was a famed Southern Utah midwife, saved my father’s life, had none less than Harold B. Lee wish he was half as sure of his own...
View ArticleLooping through the Mormon Arts, from me to me
. Though this post is by it’s very nature heavily self-indulgent, I am going to try to spin it as more altruistic than it is. Altruism #1: Katya’s Mormon Arts Wikia is exploding. BYU’s Mormon...
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Re-publishing Mormon Doctrine
This past week news reports confirmed that Deseret Book will no longer print additional copies of the 42-year-old classic Mormon Doctrine, essentially taking a classic Mormon work out-of-print. While...
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Sunday Lit Crit Sermon: Promoting Amusements — David O. McKay
It is, perhaps, one thing to specify what books and other media should be consumed, and quite another to make that material available. While many commentators today will suggest that the bulk of what...
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Sunday Lit Crit Sermon: Heber J. Grant quoting David Starr Jordan
Heber J. Grant In General Conference, if a general authority quotes another work so extensively that it makes up the majority of his discourse, you might assume that the quotation comes from the...
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Presidents Day bon mots, MormonArts-style
. [Note: I've made no effort to select quotations from their term as Church president. The words quoted may have been spoken at any point during their life.] Joseph Smith By proving contraries, truth...
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Sunday Lit Crit Sermon #78: David O. McKay on the purpose of Drama in the MIA
For many Mormons today, a play about a murderous school teacher would be hard to classify as “uplifting.” And while I would be surprised to hear anyone today suggest that all drama was in conflict with...
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