Christopher Bigelow and Stephen Carter have both authored guides for people new to Mormonism. Along the way, they encountered sticky questions. How do you decide what the “essentials” of Mormonism are in the first place? How do you talk about difficult aspects of Mormon history? How do you present the attractions of Mormonism without being …
Speaker: CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL BIGELOW
ANOTHER ‘DAWNING OF A BRIGHTER DAY?’: MORMON LITERATURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
ANOTHER ‘DAWNING OF A BRIGHTER DAY?’: MORMON LITERATURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY In his seminal essay, “The Dawning of a Brighter Day: Mormon Literature After 150 Years” (BYU Studies, 1982), Eugene England celebrated the “major blossoming of a mature Mormon literature” that was then taking place. Now, at the turn of the new century, several …