By Theric Jepson THERIC JEPSON is a gentleman who does not talk like this in everyday life. He is the author of the novel Byuck. But he knows its appearance in this bio doesn’t mean any of you will ever read the damn thing. Cheapskates. This article makes mention of Tom Kimball who is in …
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Salvator Mundi
By Robert A. Rees Robert A. Rees is the director of Mormon Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. He is compiling a collection of his essays on the Book of Mormon, and can be reached at bobrees2@gmail.com. On October 2017, I got a call from my son-in-law Paul Clark informing me that Salvator …
All She Wants is Art: Doug Himes
By Andi Pitcher Davis THE LAST MAJOR work of Cy Twombly’s life was one of art’s most romantic projects—installing a massive mural on the ceiling of the Louvre. Three thousand five hundred square feet of pure, nearly uninterrupted blue, bright as the Virginia sky. “It’s a color not bought in a bottle or matched …
Mormonism and an Aesthetic Sense of Life
By Robert C. Hunsaker HOW TO LIVE—and live well—is a perennial problem. Our personal style of living—our sense of life—corresponds directly to general life satisfaction, or the lack thereof. As Carlisle Hunsaker puts it: A sense of life is either one of our most precious possessions, or the source of our private hell. …
Religion is Art: Mormonism after Morals
By David V. Mason IN HIS RECENT work, The Good Book, philosopher A. C. Grayling has challenged us to consider life without god. After all, it is a fact that no two human cultures have imagined god(s) in the same way, and yet have consistently comported themselves in such a way as not to …
Jon McNaughton: Mormon Artist, Right-Wing Propagandist
By Robert A. Rees [The artist] will endeavor to awake subtler emotions, as yet unnamed. Living himself a complicated and comparatively subtle life, his work will give to those observers capable of feeling them lofty emotions beyond the reach of words. —Wassily Kandinsky Whenever we find in poetry that which gives us …
Art and the Evolution of a Soul
Art and the Evolution of a Soul