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Mormon fiction writers and the spectre of excommunication – A Motley Vision
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Mormon literature and culture. Monsters & Mormons anthology. Popcorn Popping (online literary magazine, 2006-07). Mormon fiction writers and the spectre of excommunication. I’m going to make a claim about this fear and then complicate it. The claim is this: Mormon fiction writers don’t need to worry about excommunication because of the content of their fiction*. Mormon fiction writers may need to worry about excommunication if their fiction exists alongside with affiliation with other activities/groups t...
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Language – A Motley Vision
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Mormon literature and culture. Monsters & Mormons anthology. Popcorn Popping (online literary magazine, 2006-07). Notes Toward a Mormon Theology of the Word: A Working Response to Jack Harrell’s Writing Ourselves. My review essay on Jack Harrell’s recently released book, Writing Ourselves: Essays on Creativity, Craft, and Mormonism. Went live on the AML website yesterday. Since Harrell seems to position the book as a conversation starter (but really, isn’t that what all books are for? What if making mean...
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Scott Hales – A Motley Vision
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Mormon literature and culture. Monsters & Mormons anthology. Popcorn Popping (online literary magazine, 2006-07). Three Poems by Mormon Women to Joseph F. Smith, 1855-1857. The poems come from members of Joseph F. Smith’s family. Eliza R. Snow, Smith’s aunt through her plural marriage to Joseph Smith, wrote the earliest of the poem:. Lines address’d to Elder. Joseph Smith, Missionary to the Sandwich Islands. Joseph, the Lord has blest you. To be in early youth,. A herald of salvation. A messenger of Truth.
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How do you push through it? (Mr. Ira Glass, I have a question!) – A Motley Vision
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Mormon literature and culture. Monsters & Mormons anthology. Popcorn Popping (online literary magazine, 2006-07). How do you push through it? Mr Ira Glass, I have a question! Whether it’s Malcolm Gladwell’s 100,000 hours. Or or the proverbial million bad words, Ira Glass. Wants you to know something:. Ira Glass on Storytelling. From David Shiyang Liu. This will probably come as a (not) startling confession, but I am one of. Remember when Wm blogged. Are very tolerant of this phase in my writing. You ...
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Comments Policy – A Motley Vision
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Mormon literature and culture. Monsters & Mormons anthology. Popcorn Popping (online literary magazine, 2006-07). In general, we endorse the comment policies. Developed by Times and Seasons with a few amendments:. 3 Our community of commenters tends to be small. Please keep in mind that we are a community here. One shot comments are fine*. And, indeed, we welcome new voices. But we are most interested in comments that further the conversation and encourage conversations that take place ov...Unless they a...
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Rhetoric – A Motley Vision
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Mormon literature and culture. Monsters & Mormons anthology. Popcorn Popping (online literary magazine, 2006-07). A Personal and Rhetorical Review of The Crucible of Doubt. Givens, Terryl and Fiona. The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections on the Question for Faith. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014. 168 pages. $19.99 in hardback, $11.99 Kindle. Reviewed by Jonathan Langford. Back in 2012, Ensign Peak (an imprint of Deseret Book), published. The God Who Weeps. The God Who Weeps. The Crucible of Doubt. And mor...
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Tyler – A Motley Vision
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Mormon literature and culture. Monsters & Mormons anthology. Popcorn Popping (online literary magazine, 2006-07). Notes Toward a Mormon Theology of the Word: A Working Response to Jack Harrell’s Writing Ourselves. My review essay on Jack Harrell’s recently released book, Writing Ourselves: Essays on Creativity, Craft, and Mormonism. Went live on the AML website yesterday. Since Harrell seems to position the book as a conversation starter (but really, isn’t that what all books are for? What if making mean...
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Mormon Vision of Language Series – A Motley Vision
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Mormon literature and culture. Monsters & Mormons anthology. Popcorn Popping (online literary magazine, 2006-07). Tag: Mormon Vision of Language Series. Â œIf it be a true seed, or a good seedâ : A Brief Note on Narrative Ethics. My thoughts in this post may not break new ground in narrative studies or be foreign to readers of AMV. I share them, however, as part of my continued project to elaborate a uniquely Mormon vision of language. In Almaâ s discourse on faith. Â or â œHow true is it? Â œIf it be a ...
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Authoring – A Motley Vision
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Mormon literature and culture. Monsters & Mormons anthology. Popcorn Popping (online literary magazine, 2006-07). Taking Our Stories to a General Audience: A review of The Librarian Shoots a Gun, by Amber Gilchrist. Amber Gilchrist is an independent writer of fiction that is unapologetically LDS and aimed at a general audience. When I set into reading her newest novel,. The Librarian Shoots a Gun. Submissions due Saturday for Mormon alternate history anthology. Here’s where you can get some:. No, serious...
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