Category Archives: Personal Narratives

Thank you for not yelling at me

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Scott Parkin

One of the great challenges of a literature whose foundations come from common religion (or politics, or healthy living, or any other community that requires a conversion) is a tendency to preach. Continue reading →

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Genealogy Stories as Mormon Literature

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury

As a genealogist, I am particularly interested in the form of Mormon literature which might be called “genealogy miracle stories.” I just finished a collection of them that was compiled by Marilyn Brown and Lee Nelson and published by Cedar … Continue reading →

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Community Voices: 100 Years of Hugh Nibley

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Boyd Petersen

On March 27th, we celebrated the 100th birthday of Hugh Nibley. The Nibley family held a family reunion and we got to see most of the East Coast contingency that we usually see only at funerals, so it was a … Continue reading →

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Mormon Literature: It’s In the Mail

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Margaret Blair Young

For the past few years, I have been making a documentary.  For the past few months, I have been doing all of the business associated with distributing that documentary, since we haven’t yet found a distributor we’re satisfied with.  I … Continue reading →

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