From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V1 #487 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Friday, October 19 2001 Volume 01 : Number 487 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:07:15 -0600 From: Steve Subject: [AML] Steve PERRY, "The Peaceable Kingdom" (Song) Hi listers, Ever since the events of September 11th, I've had a tune running through my mind. It's a song I wrote way back before the turn of century ('85) called "The Peaceable Kingdom." Maybe you'd like to have the lyrics run through your mind too? If so, they're printed up here... http://www.stevenkappperry.com Funny how something heartfelt at the time can come to take on unintended meaning through the years. :-) Steve - -- skperry@mac.com - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:02:48 -0600 From: Scott and Marny Parkin Subject: [AML] Speculative Lit (was: Gen. Conf. Music) robert lauer wrote: >Concerning "If You Could to Kolob" >I thought that the ideas were based soundly in modern day >revelation, LDS scripture and the Endowment ceremny. Since it had >been in our hymn book for--what? Over a century?--doesn't this put >its concepts more in the line of official Church doctrine than mere >"speculative literature?" Does inclusion in the hymn book count as official canonization of doctrine? I had never considered it as authoritative on doctrinal matters. As for our understanding of conditions on or near Kolob--as far as I know, we have little documentary evidence of the specifics of that glorified orb. Which makes any comment on it speculative. A note on speculation...I think we speculate on a great many things, and I see that speculation as both good and worthwhile. In my mind all speculation is founded in knowledge--or at least well-founded supposition--so a work can be both soundly based in modern revelation (or history or science) and still be quite speculative. Every modern attempt to tell historical stories (Lund, Whipple, Woolley, Brown, Clavell, Mitchell, etc.) contains speculation; their documentary sources are at best limited when it comes to putting thoughts or ideas in people's heads, and they sometimes just have to guess at physical specifics. Speculation is just part of the game in the absence of absolute knowledge, and is one of the many tools of the author and lyricist alike. Even "Joseph Smith's First Prayer" is speculative on at least a few of the details. I know--speculative literature is normally associated with space opera and weird aliens and wild flights of fancy. But some of it is a legitimate attempt to hypothesize on the possible and the likely, and is based on rigorous research and unimpeachable primary resources. I consider Nephi Anderson's _Added Upon_ to be clear speculation since he cannot possibly know exactly what has and will happen in the councils in heaven; that it was based on correlated doctrinal sources doesn't change the fact that the entire work is speculative. So...no, I don't think the doctrinal foundations of W.W. Phelps effort in any way changes the speculative nature of his text. Nor does that speculative nature in any way diminish the worth and quality and truth of the finished work. In my opinion. Scott Parkin - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:04:15 -0400 From: "robert lauer" Subject: Re: [AML] Joseph Smith as Character >From: Lynette Jones > >A thought on the matter of writing the story of Joseph Smith from a 21st >Century viewpoint. > [snip] >Would we, as Latter-day Saints be able to show how this process made >Joseph's weaknesses into strengths? > [snip] >These relationships, is there some way to communicate how they shaped him >so that he would be a good instrument in God's hand? I attempted to do this in the very first play I wrote (at age 20), DIGGER. I showed Joseph "evolving" from a money digger/village magician-type to a prophet. What prompted the beginning of this transformation was his own sense of guilt for his shortcomings, along with a powerful ego (that's ego in the positive "Ayn Rand/Objectivist" understanding--a sense of self and a sure knowledge of one's own values). The play dealt with his courtship of Emma and how she was also a catalyst for his transformation. (As a side note, one of Joseph's friends--I forget who, at the moment--later claimed that Joseph went to work for Josiah Stowell in Harmony, Pa., digging for buried silver, because he (Joseph) had looked in his seer stone and seen Emma; that he needed to, in effect, secure her as his wife before he could get the plates and begin his prophetic career. I found this concept intriguing from a storytelling--and I suppose, from a theological--point of view: that a prophet, like any other human, must have deep relationships with other people in order to work out his own salvation. Though I came upon this "story" Joseph after I had written the first few drafts of DIGGER, I used it as an "unstated background" for later drafts.) I've never been satisfied with DIGGER from a structural point of view, but haven't touched the script in over 20 years. If anyone out there would care to read it and give me some criticism and suggestions, I would really appreciate it. To work on the script at this point would feel too much like stepping backwards personally (I'm currently working on other projects that I find much more exciting), but if some bit of criticism or some suggestions get me thinking, and thus excited, I'd go back,do rewrites and maybe get the play "right" for once. Sunstone published DIGGER in 1988 (I believe it was their December or Fall issue.) Last year I called Sunstone and they still had back issues for sale. I think also that there is an LDS CD-rom library (available from Signature Books?) that includes this particular issue of Sunstone magazine. Any way, if anyone has the time or interest to read the script, I'd appreciate feed-back. Thanks, ROB LAUER - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:39:01 -0400 From: "robert lauer" Subject: Re: [AML] Stories about War >From: "Alan Rex Mitchell" Alan Mitchell wrote: >Now just hold on a minute. The MMM wasn't terrorism by any current >definition. I think you meant just 'massacre in US History.' I guess all >the Indian massacres didn't count? Nor the war massacres? Nor Mai Lai? I >think Hiroshima was probably a bigger massacre than MMM. >And the coincidence of 9-11? Is Mormon Lit supposed to be superstitious? >I'll answer that--NO! Let's not have any talimans in our thinking. More >Kolob please. > >Alan Mitchell > Yes, the Mountain Meadows Massacre is indeed considered an act of domestic terrorism--and it certainly fits the current definition of this word: US citizens attacked and murdered over 100 of their fellow US citizens. Also, those who attacked (and it must be stressed that they acted WITHOUT the support or direction of LDS Church officials in Salt Lake) were motivated by their religious beliefs. We must remember that in the 1850's, the Saints were indeed religious separatists, pioneering Utah territory in an attempt to set up a religious and POLITICAL Kingdom of God on the earth. The media of the day presented the "Mormons" as exotic, as dangerous, as violent, as clannish, as oppressive to women,as uninterested in the rights of non-Mormons--in short, as a real threat to national security. This is exactly why President Buchanan sent Federal Troops to Utah in 1857--to put down what the Government feared was an imminent "Mormon rebellion." This decision created the tension felt by most Saints in Utah; that tension added to the emotion inspired by the Church's "Reformation" in 1855; it fanned fanaticism among many Saints living on the outskirts of the Territory--in places such as current day Cedar City. (Have just spent a year and a half researching and writing an upcoming documentary on the Oklahoma City Bombing for MGA Films, Inc., entitled A CRY FOR JUSTICE, I learned just how deeply radical-right wing religious separatists were involved in the life and thinking of Timothy Mc Veigh.The dynamics I observed in the radical religious right/anti-government leaders that we interviewed for this film reminded me in many ways of people such as John D. Lee and other members of the Cedar City High Council--those who perpetrated the massacre.) As for the indian massacres, the government does not define them as acts of domestic terrorism: Indians were not considered US citizens but members of their own various tribal nations. These terrible massacres are considered acts of war. The same is true of the various events you cited in Nam and Japan; these were all battles fought in wars with foreign nations. The Federal Government does not define these as terrorists acts. When the History Channel produced a documentary on the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1997, they stated that it was the worst act of terrorism on US soil since the 1857 Meadow Mountain Massacre. They repeated this fact again when they produced a documentary on the MMM later that year. So, having just having finished work on a year and half contract researching and writing two documentaries on domestic terrorism and terrorist groups in the US, I most certainly do stand by my statement that until 1995, the Mountain Meadows Massacre was the worst single act of terrorism on US soil. As a believing Latter-day Saint, I have absolutely no problem doing this: the facts don't bother me at all, nor do they effect my testimony in any way. There will always be fanatics and violence in ANY religious community. However, this things are usually aberrations and not the rule. Certainly, the Prophet (Brigham Young) and others saw the massacre as an act of terrorism. The Church distanced itself from the MMM just as mainline Muslims are now distancing themselves from the events of September 11th. Brigham Young eventually labeled John D. Lee (his adoptive son) as the ring-leader of those who carried out the MMM, and an LDS jury found him guilty of murder and sentenced him to death. ROB LAUER - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:47:07 -0600 From: Terry L Jeffress Subject: [AML] Bibliographies on the AML Web site On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:40:58PM -0600, Jonathan Langford wrote: > [MOD: I'm going to get in here with something I've had in mind for > quite a while. Every now and then, we do these kinds of focused > bibliographies over AML-List, usually prompted by Andrew Hall's > work. It seems to me that if it can be done without too much work, > it would be a fine thing to post the resulting bibliographies on the > AML or AML-List Web page. I agree that selected bibliographies might help someone focus on a particular aspect of Mormon literature. But carried out to an extreme, wouldn't this begin to conflict with Gideon Burton's work on the Mormon Literature Database now housed at the Harold B. Lee Library? Also, such lists can quickly grow stale if not aggressively maintained. > The problems I can see are that (a) this would need someone to go > through and do fairly careful formatting, and (b) we wouldn't want > to post something unless it was complete enough to be useful and we > kept it updated on a regular basis. This formatting comes in two stages. First, someone needs to format all the entries in a consistent style like Chicago or MLA. Second, someone would need to convert these lists to HTML. I have the skill to do both these tasks, but not the time. If someone wants to maintain a bibliography, I can quickly format the list as HTML. If we have a great outpouring of support for this project, I could even write a program to format the entries automatically. I have written similar programs for the AML website, the AML Awards Database, and the AML-List Review Archive. The list maintainer would then only maintain entries in a database. The program would read the database, format the entries, and create the HTML pages, which we could easily cross reference to the other existing databases. > Which probably means a volunteer of some kind. But still, it strikes > me that a bibliography compiled, more or less, as a group project > would probably be wider and more useful than anything any one person > could do, unless he/she (like Marny Parkin's Mormon sf&f > bibliography, which I would also love to give a home on the AML or > AML-List page, or a link to wherever else it currently resides) puts > a tremendous amount of time into something for purely altruistic > reasons... The AML Website already has a link to the Mormon SF Bibliography in the Resources section, along with several hundred other links of interest to the Mormon literature community. I think that moving projects like Marny's sf bibliography to the AML web site, although welcome, would take away some of the autonomy that such maintainer's enjoy. At this point, Marny has total freedom to use the style guide of her choice, she chooses her own sources, she sets her own rules for inclusion and exclusion, and she can make updates in her own time an using her own methods. If Marny announced that she could no longer maintain her bibliography, I certainly would volunteer to keep the project going, but much of the value of the Internet comes from private individuals taking on a pet project. Look at where Benson's vision has carried us on AML-List today. P.S. If you have an itch to volunteer for the AML and don't know what to do, you can volunteer to maintain the resources section of the AML web site. As with any list of Internet links, this section needs constant maintenance, which I have not had the time to invest here. Marny did the last pass through and removed a lot of the stale links, but more have popped up. We could also use some help sorting the lists into some order [probably alphabetical]. I could also use an assistant for the AML Events Calendar. I have already written a program to read the events and create the HTML, I just need someone willing to compile major events -- especially those outside the Wasatch Front area. - -- Terry Jeffress | Find a subject you care about and which | you in your heart feel others should care AML Webmaster and | about. It is this genuine caring, not your AML-List Review Archivist | games with language, which will be the | most compelling and seductive element in | your style. -- Kurt Vonnegut - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:20:51 -0600 From: "Paris ANDERSON" Subject: Re: [AML] Audience for Journals Ben Parkinson wrote: So do you tell it all if all you find is bad? I don't know--so far he's my worst-case scenario. I do think you have to tell the bad with the good if you want your kids to believe you. It can work like gossip, too, though. You have to tell it in away that doesn't make your kids deaf to the good in them. But the bad can be good! I really didn't know my grandfather until my twenties--that is the time when I was terribly unstable and bordering on prison-or-hell-bent. This grandfather was my mother's father. She is a convert who came to BYU and married a nice Arizona boy. Anyway, Grampa could hardly move, so I went to his apartment every day and cleaned up a bit and fed his breakfast. Grampa used to sit around and tell me stories--and some times I went home and asked my mother about them. It seems my great-grampa was kicked in the head while grooming a race horse and eventually died in an insane asylumn. My grampa was a violent alcholic and was eventually kicked out of Burbank, California (he moved there from North Dakota during WWII and worked for Lockheed. My grandmother was to follow with the children a few months later, but she never did because he was a violent alcoholic.) My uncle has been in and out of prison all his life (Currently in). One time Grampa told me he was driving truck through Chicago and saw my uncle, his son, at the side of the road hitchiking. He said he picked him up, and Dean, my uncle, said he had been living under a bridge writing poetry. That hit me so hard. Finally . . . some one like me. I asked grampa if he had ever written poetry. He said, "no, engines were my art"--his words! Then he said his father wrote poetry and even published some. That day was the most profound and meaningful of my whole life up til then. It meant so much to finally belong somewhere. It was tremendously pacifying. Bad can be good--even life-saving. Paris Anderson AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:52:49 -0400 From: "Debra L. Brown" Subject: [AML] Fw: MN "Grandfather of American Ballet," Willam Christensen, 99: Los Angeles Times 16Oct01 US UT SLC P2 "Grandfather of American Ballet," Willam Christensen, 99 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- "The man is a legend," says Ballet West's artistic director Jonas Kage. "He an his brothers put ballet on the map in America." William Farr Christensen, who is credited with founding both the San Francisco Ballet and Utah's Ballet West, died Sunday in Salt Lake City. He was one of three brothers who all loom large in American dance. Willam also started the first University Ballet department and was the first to choreograph a full-length production of "The Nutcracker." He was 99. Christensen was born August, 27, 1902 in Brigham City, Utah to a Mormon family, descendant of a pioneer grandfather who joined the LDS Church and immigrated to Utah. Both the grandfather and Christensen's father, Chris B. Christensen were musicians, fiddlers, and early on Willam studied in his father's music academy. Those studies led him to form a dixieland jazz band while still a youth. But as Willam got older, he decided to instead study ballet with his uncle, L. Peter Christensen, in Salt Lake City, because, he told the Salt Lake Tribune recently, "I found girls were much better looking than pianos." Reaching adulthood, Willam moved to New York City where he studied with the dancer Mascano, but soon found a place on the Orpheum Vaudeville circuit where he and his brothers, Harold and Lew, performed a ballet act that introduced the art to many who were unfamiliar with it. Known variously as the Christ Brothers, Le Christs and The Buekoffs, they shared the stage with famous vaudevillians like W.C. Fields, Jack Benny and Bob Hope. A 1931 review of their act said that the "Christensen Brothers are taking a chance in trying to sell an act composed entirely of classical dancing." Soon after the vaudeville world began to decline amid the onset of the great depression. Willam, who had married his dance partner, Mignon Lee Trieste, in 1929, moved to Portland in 1932 to take over his uncle's ballet school there, and it quickly evolved into the Portland Ballet. His brothers, Lew and Harold, had gone on to New York City to dance with George Balanchine. In 1937 Willam was asked to come to San Francisco as the principal soloist at the San Francisco Opera Ballet, and within the year he was named ballet master of the company. He also started choreographing full-lenght ballets, resulting in 1938 in the first American "Coppelia" and the first American "Swan Lake" the next year (1939). Willam told Newsweek in 1993 that at the time he choreographed "Swan Lake" he had never seen it, "I'd never seen 'Swan Lake,' only the second act. But there was a big Russian colony here [in San Francisco] and those Russian officers were from old noble families. They remembered everything." But the San Francisco Opera tired of also owning the Ballet during the beginning of World War II, and in 1942 sold the rights to the company to Willam and his brother Harold, who named their company the San Francisco Ballet, the first major ballet company in the Western U.S. "They were amazing," says Helgi Tomasson, current artistic director of the San Francisco Ballet. "Harold devoted himself to the school, and Lew in the beginning of course danced. But Willam was the driving force behind everything." Before the end of the War, Willam had again choreographed another first, the first full-length American performance of "The Nutcracker," now a Christmas classic at many U.S. ballet companies. He once said that the secret to choreographing "The Nutcracker" was in the music, "If you just listen, its all there." "The Nutcracker" has now become the most produced ballet in the U.S. In 1978 he told the Salt Lake Tribune, "Someone once asked me how long I thought 'The Nutcracker' would continue. I suppose it will go as long as there are children being born and as long as there's a Santa Claus." In 1951, Willam was struck when his wife, Mignon was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, leading them to move to Salt Lake City. His brother Lew joined the San Francisco Ballet at that time, and became the sole artistic director that year. Willam started his own studio in Salt Lake City, and was then asked to do another first -- start the first ballet department at an American college or university. Joining the faculty of the University of Utah, Willam brought dance on campus, forming in 1963 the University Theatre Ballet, and, that same year, the Utah Civic Ballet, with the help of arts patron Glen Walker Wallace. Five years later the Civic Ballet changed its name to Ballet West. At the University of Utah, Willam Christensen had a profound effect on his many students. Kent Stowell, founder of the Pacific Northwest Ballet said Christensen managed to do something remarkable, "to get boys to dance ballet in America." Stowell says. "Bill was always encouraging about male dancers. He'd horse around with us in the studio and generated a sense that to be a ballet dancer was OK." Stowell added that Christensen was also a role model as artistic director, "What Bill did was create in people's minds that in order to establish an [arts] organization, you had to be an enthusiastic spokesperson for your profession. Watching him be a good promoter taught me how to marshal community support." Willam toured Europe with Ballet West in 1971, gaining critical praise. But that year his wife, Mignon, lost her battle with MS. In 1973 he married Florence Jensen Goeglein, and five years later, in 1978, he retired from Ballet West. His brother Lew died in 1984 and brother Harold in 1989, leaving Willam the last surviving of the brothers. After his retirement the honors kept coming. He and his brothers shared the Dance Magazine Award in 1973 with Rudolf Nureyev and won a number of teaching awards in the 1960s. He was given the Bay Area Hall of Fame Award by the San Francisco Bay Area Dance Coalition, and was given a Utah Governor's Award in the Arts. In 1989 an auditorium at the University of Utah was named for him an for Elizabeth R. Hayes, and just last year he was given the CORPS de Ballet International Award for lifetime achievement and distinguished service. And Willam kept busy even after his retirement. He was a teacher and advisor to many ballet students, and took on the position of ballet master of the Ballet West Conservatory in 1998, at the age of 95. And even that late in life, ballet was still in his blood. He told the Salt Lake Tribune in 1997 when the University of Utah revived his version of "Coppelia" that he wished he could dance it again. "My brother, Lew, could do more pirouettes," he said, "but I beat the hell out of him in mime." Stowell says Christensen simply loved life, "He loved to have a good drink, a cigarette, a laugh with people. He was a theater person, an opera and a ballet person. And to live as long as he did, he must have enjoyed a lot of it." Sources: Willam F. Christensen, 99; Ballet Pioneer Los Angeles Times 16Oct01 P2 http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-000082506oct16.story?coll=la%2Dnew s%2Dobituaries By Lewis Segal: Times Dance Critic Willam Farr Christensen Salt Lake Tribune 16Oct01 P2 http://www.sltrib.com/10162001/obituari/140639.htm Dance pioneer 'Mr. C' dies Deseret News 15Oct01 P2 http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,330008329,00.html By Scott Iwasaki: Deseret News dance editor Ballet pioneer Willam F. Christensen San Francisco Chronicle 16Oct01 P2 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/10/16/MN30372.DTL By Octavio Roca: Chronicle Dance Critic W.F. Christensen, major ballet figure Boston Globe (AP) 16Oct01 P2 http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/289/obituaries/W_F_Christensen_+.shtml Associated Press Mr. C Salt Lake Tribune 16Oct01 OP2 http://www.sltrib.com/10162001/opinion/opinion.htm >From Mormon-News: Mormon News and Events Forwarding is permitted as long as this footer is included Mormon News items may not be posted to the World Wide Web sites without permission. Please link to our pages instead. For more information see http://www.MormonsToday.com/ Send join and remove commands to: majordomo@MormonsToday.com Put appropriate commands in body of the message: To join: subscribe mormon-news To leave: unsubscribe mormon-news To join digest: subscribe mormon-news-digest - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:06:13 -0400 From: "robert lauer" Subject: [AML] Mormonism as Distinctive (was: Gen. Conf. Music) Ethan!!!! Amen! Amen! And Amen! I joined the Church as a teen because of the "fluff" and emotionalism. When I grew out of that stage, I grew out of the Church. I requested excommunication and was away from the Church for over decade. However, accepting the ethical relativism of the pop culture, by the early 90's I had severe writers' block. So I started studying philosophy, politics, higher criticism of art and religion, etc. Low and behold, I did a complete 180! I became a big fan of Ayn Rand an Objectivism--which is the complete opposite of "fluff." And in 1994 I returned to the Church with a real testimony of the Gospel. Since then I've usually been called as Elder Quorum teacher in most of the wards in which I've lived. In teaching (and in giving Sacrament Meeting talks and in bearing my testimony), I avoid the fluff. ("Avoid" is probably the wrong word to use since I don't even think in terms of "fluff"--it plays not part in my testimony.) The reactions to my approach in teaching and speaking has been overwhelmingly positive. (Thus, I suppose, I keep being called to teach over and over again.) This is not because I'm such a great teacher, but because there is--I firmly think--a real THIRST for something other than fluff--or what I like to call "The Gospel According to Hallmark." The broader culture to easily confuses sentiment with morality and emotion with spirit--and LDS culture, in many ways, does this to an even greater extent. (I think this is why much LDS art is in such a sorry state.) But the Restored Gospel is marvelously stimulating intellectually--so very life affirming and pro-human without being trite. Plus, we already have been given SO MUCH SURE KNOWLEDGE OF THE NATURE OF GOD, MAN AND THE UNIVERSE! It's wonderful! While living in New York City, I often got to know people in the art world who would say, later in our friendship, "You're nothing like the other Mormons I know. They never told me any of the thing about their religion that you've told me." We need to be spreading the "weirdness" and the "loopiness" because they are, in fact, neither of these of things: they are rational, reality-based ways of viewing God, humanity and existence. We should also be attracting the critical-thinkers, the scientists and the "tough cookies"--not reaching out only to those who respond to "fluff." ROB LAUER - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:33:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "R.W. Rasband" Subject: Re: [AML] Nobel Winner V.S. Naipaul - --- Dallas Robbins wrote: > I would agree that the Nobel's choice for Naipaul is political, but most > of > their recent choices have been political: Gunter Grass, Seamus Heaney, > Jose > Saragamo, Gao Xingjian, Dario Fo, Kenzaburo Oe, etc... Isn't it interesting, though, that few people not from their own nations had heard of any of those choices before the award (except for Grass), whereas Naipaul was already recognized as a giant. Perhaps "Salon" magazine is right in speculating that the Nobel committee is trying to borrow credibility by giving the award to a world-famous writer, for once; and in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, one on the "wrong" side of the political fence. > Also my impression > of > Naipaul's disdain for Islam, also extends to religion in general - even > Christianity. > It's true that Naipaul's preferred stance is one of worldliness. But in "Beyond Belief", the sequel to "Among the Believers", he compares the totalitarian insistence on "the Islamic state" (even in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) to Christianity's emphasis on the private conscience of the believer. And he flatly says, "Gandhi got his ethics from Christianity." ===== R.W. Rasband Heber City, UT rrasband@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:15:30 -0600 From: "Eric R. Samuelsen" Subject: Re: [AML] Mormon Missionary Bibliography I'd add Don Marshall's story collection, The Rummage Sale, which has a = couple of missionary stories. I've got a missionary play, too, called = Without Romance; it's been produced a couple of times. Eric Samuelsen - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:12:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "R.W. Rasband" Subject: Re: [AML] HOLLAND, _Shot in the Heart_ (Movie) - --- ROY SCHMIDT wrote: > Related: Hugh Nibley pronounces Nephi: Neffey. Egyptian, maybe? > > Roy Schmidt > Also interesting: in the film the "third Nephite" who appears to Bessie Gilmore and her children in their distress is portrayed by a benign, middle-aged African-American man, not unlike Danny Glover. ===== R.W. Rasband Heber City, UT rrasband@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:21:56 -0600 From: Scott and Marny Parkin Subject: Re: [AML] Mormon Missionary Bibliography I am assuming you'd like fiction first of all, then contemporary perspectives and academic studies, and last (and least) inspirational or didactic works. I am also assuming you don't want historical studies. I have read none of these so am unable to comment on them other than the broad categories they were placed in for the _BYU Studies_ Mormon Bibliography. Most of these are older, as the Studies Bib only goes through 1995. The Bib is in process of being put on-line at http://byustudies.byu.edu. (If you notice any omissions to the Bib, send them to me at marnyparkin@earthlink.net.) I believe most of these are available in the BYU library. Marny Parkin Creative works: Allen, Penny. "Mission Rules." _Sunstone_ 16 (December 1993): 29. Anderson, Paris. "You: A Missionary Story." _Sunstone_ 11 (September 1987): 18-20. Blanchard, Gay N. "To My Missionary Son." In _Where Feelings Flower: Poetry of LDS Women_, comp. Barbara B. Smith and Shirley W. Thomas, 140. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1992. Call, Bruce. _From Bad to Verse: A Collection of Missionary Light Verse_. American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, 1992. Cathery-Kutcher, Janet. "First Visit of the Missionaries." In _Where Feelings Flower: Poetry of LDS Women_, comp. Barbara B. Smith and Shirley W. Thomas, 44. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1992. Collings, Michael R. "Mission Call." _Latter-day Digest_ 3 (January 1994): 56. England, Eugene. "Mission to Paradise." _BYU Studies_ 38, no. 1 (1999): 170-85. Hanson, Steve Dunn. _The Mission_. Santa Ana, Calif.: Jacob Publishing, 1987. Hawkins, Claire. "Rummaging in the Attic: Missionary Memos." In _Women in the Covenant of Grace: Talks Selected from the 1993 Women's Conference Sponsored by Brigham Young University and the Relief Society_, ed. Dawn Hall Anderson and Susette Fletcher Green, 99-105. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1994. Keele, Kristine Stones. "A Tribute to a Missionary of the Lord." _LDS Entertainment_ 1, no. 2 (1992): 40. Kump, Eileen Gibbons. "Mission Widow." _BYU Studies_ 25 (spring 1985): 17-22. Also in Cameo: Latter-day Women in Profile 1 (November 1993): 71-76. Lamb-Kwon, Tracie. "Because I Was a Sister Missionary." _Dialogue_ 25 (summer 1992): 137-49. Larsen, Lance [E.] "Missionary Court." _Dialogue_ 25 (fall 1992): 56. Lively, Robert L., Jr. "A Non-Mormon Religion Professor's Impressions of Mormon Missionaries." _BYU Studies_ 33 (1993): 151-59. Morrise, Martha Pettijohn. "Sister Missionary to the Deaf." _Ensign_ 22 (September 1992): 55. Orton, Sharise. "Missionary Rain." New Era 18 (August 1988): 26. Rogers, Thomas F. _A Call to Russia: Glimpses of Missionary Life_. Provo, Utah, BYU Studies, 1999. Rook, B. Weston. _The Junction_. Xlibris, 2001. [this was reviewed on the list a while ago] Rothe, Ruth G. "The Mission Call." _LDS Entertainment_ 1, no. 1 (1992): 14-15. Sherrill, A. Bryan. "Missionary Work." _New Era_ 19 (June 1989): 67. Shim, Judy Yoshiko. "Alternatives to the Standard LDS Mission." _Exponent II_ 17, no. 4 (1993): 13. Snow, Edgar C., Jr. "Missionary Stories." _Wasatch Review International_ 2 (December 1993): 35-48. Staheli, Linda Campbell. "Missionary Work." _New Era_ 23 (February 1993): 51. Thayne, Emma Lou. "To a Daughter about to Become a Missionary: For Dinny." In _Where Feelings Flower: Poetry of LDS Women_, comp. Barbara B. Smith and Shirley W. Thomas, 138-39. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1992. Academic/General works: Adams, William E., and James R. Clopton. "Personality and Dissonance among Mormon Missionaries." _Journal of Personality Assessment_ 54 (summer 1990): 684-93. Alexander, David. "The Skeptical Eye: Fun with Missionaries." _The Humanist_ 50 (September/October 1990): 45-46. Allred, Hugh, and Steve H. Allred. _How to Make a Good Mission Great_. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1978. Alston, Jon P., and Johnson, David. "A Cross-cultural Analysis of Mormon Missionary Success." _Measuring Mormonism_ (fall 1979): 1-17. Bailey, Jack S[tephan]. _Inside a Mormon Mission: The Candid Story of a Faithful Mormon Missionary_. Salt Lake City: Hawkes Publishing, 1976. Bateman, J. LaVar. "The Speaking in the Mormon Missionary System." Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin. 1950. Blanke, Gustav H., and Karen Lynn. "'God's Base of Operations': Mormon Variations on the American Sense of Mission." _BYU Studies_ 20 (fall 1979) 83-92. Bradford, Mary L[ythgoe]. "My Ten-Day Mission." _Exponent II_ 12 (fall 1985): 4-7. Britsch, R. Lanier. "Mormon Missions: An Introduction to the Latter-day Saints Missionary System." _Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research_ 3 (January 1979): 22-27. Buice, David. "'All Alone and None to Cheer Me': The Southern States Mission Diary of J. Golden Kimball." _Dialogue_ 24 (spring 1991): 35-54. Butler, Helen. "Please, God, Don't Send Us a Missionary!" _True West_ 37 (November 1990): 30-34. Fallows, J[ames]. M. "The World beyond Salt Lake City." _U.S. News and World Report_, May 2, 1988, 67. [work of American missionaries] Hanks, Maxine. "Sister Missionaries and Authority." In _Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism_, ed. Maxine Hanks, 315-34. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992. Harrington, Mary B. "Not Every Family Rejoices to Have a Child Go on a Mission." _Sunstone_ 14 (December 1990): 51-53. Hughes, Robert R. "Physical Fitness Activities for Latter-day Saint Missionaries." Master's thesis, Brigham Young University], 1972. Humpherys, A. Glen. "Missionaries to the Saints." _BYU Studies_ 17 (autumn 1976): 74-100. Jensen, Jay E. "The Effect of Initial Mission Field Training on Missionary Proselyting Skills." Ed.D. diss., Brigham Young University, 1988. Jensen, Jay [E.] "Proselyting Techniques of Mormon Missionaries." Master's thesis, Brigham Young University, 1974. Jensen, K. C. "Tax Deductions for Payments to Mormon Missionaries." _BYU Journal of Public Law_ 4 (1990): 115-31. Johnson, Jerry. "Ten Things Not to Do on Your Mission (That I Did on Mine)." _This People_ 11 (fall 1990): 28-31. Kimball, Spencer W[ooley]. "The Mission Experience of Spencer W Kimball." _BYU Studies_ 25 (fall 1985): 109-40. King, Tancred I. "Missiology and Mormon Missions." _Dialogue_ 16 (winter 1983): 42-50. Knowlton, David [Clark]. "Missionaries and Terror: The Assassination of Two Elders in Bolivia." _Sunstone_ 13 (August 1989): 10-15. Knowlton, David C[lark]. "Missionary, Native, and General Authority Accounts of a Bolivian Conversion." _Sunstone_ 13 (January 1989): 14-20. Lake, David Taylor. "The Effects of Self-Evaluation and Teacher-Evaluation on Missionary Trainees." Ph.D. diss., Brigham Young University, 1987. Mabey, Rendell [N.], and Gordon T. Allred. _Brother to Brother: The Story of the Latter-day Saint Missionaries Who Took the Gospel to Black Africa_. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1984. Mabey, Rendell [N.], and Gordon T. Allred. "Unordinary People: Mission: Beirut." _This People_ 6 (November 1985): 70-73. Martin, Jane Chapman. "A Building Mission: John Watkins and John Told: Answering the Call." _Salt Lake City_ 5 (March/April 1994): 46-52. McPeck, Amanda B. "We Were Always Singing: Folksongs of LDS Sister Missionaries." Honors project, Brigham Young University, 1994. Miller, Scott D. "Thought Reform and Totalism: The Psychology of the LDS Church Missionary Training Program." _Sunstone_ 10 (August 1985): 24-29. Mower, G. Jeanne. "Dietary Evaluation and Education of Missionaries." Master's thesis, Brigham Young University, 1980. Nibley, Preston. _Missionary Experiences_. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1975. Nielsen, Larry. _How Would You Like to See the Slides of My Mission_. Bountiful: Horizon Publishers, 1980. Payne, David Emer. "Social Determinants of Leadership in the Mormon Missionary System." Master's thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1970. Peterson, Joe. "Franklin Fisher's _Bones_: The Effaced Identity of the Mormon Missionary." In _The Association for Mormon Letters Annual_, 2:171-76. 2 vols. Salt Lake City: Association for Mormon Letters, 1994. ?Rytting, Marvin. "Love and Pain and the Whole Damned Mission." _Sunstone_ 7 (November-December 1982): 59-61. Searle, Inez S. "A Comparative Study of Latter-day Saint Missionaries and Non-missionaries in Scholastic Aptitude, Academic Achievement, and Vocational Interest." Master's thesis, Brigham Young University, 1958. Thomas, Madison H., and Marian P. Thomas. "The LDS Missionary Experience: Observations on Stress." _AMCAP Journal_ 15 (1990): 49-79. Topper, Martin D. "'Mormon Placement': The Effects of Missionary Foster Families on Navajo Adolescents." _Ethos_ 7 (1979): 142-60. Toscano, Paul James. _Gospel Letters to a Mormon Missionary_. Orem, Utah: Grandin Book, 1983. Whittaker, David J., and Chris McClellan. _Mormon Missions and Missionaries: A Bibliographic Guide to Published and Manuscript Sources_. Provo, Utah: Special Collections and Manuscripts, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, 1993. Wilson, William A. "On Being Human: The Folklore of Mormon Missionaries." _Sunstone_ 7 (January-February 1982): 32-40. Missionary Preparation/Inspirational: Bishop, Joseph L. _The Making of a Missionary_. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1982. Black, Don J. _To a Parting Missionary_. Provo, Utah: Ensign Publications, 1975. Butler, Florence G. _The Art of Being a Member Missionary_. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1968. Cannon, Elaine, and Ed J. Pinegar. _Called to Serve Him: Preparing Missionaries to Bring People to Christ_. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1991. Christensen, Joe J., and Barbara K. Christensen. _Making Your Home a Missionary Training Center_. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1985. Christensen, Lela Guymon. _The Spirit of Music: A Missionary Tool_. Springville, Utah: Cedar Fort, 1993. Craven, Rulon G. _The Effective Missionary_. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1982. Curtis, LeGrand R. "Christmas in the Mission Home." In _Christmas Treasures: Stories and Reminiscences from General Authorities_, 47-48. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1994. Daynes, Robert W. _Missionary Helps_. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1967. Dunn, Loren C. _Prepare Now to Succeed on Your Mission_. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1976. Garrett, H. Dean. "Missionary Work: A View from the Doctrine and Covenants." In _The Heavens Are Open: The 1992 Sperry Symposium on the Doctrine and Covenants and Church History_, 130-40. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1993. Harrison, Grant Von. _Converting Thousands: A Guide for Missionaries_. Provo, Utah: Aaron Publishing and Indexing, 1981. Harrison, Grant Von. _Converting with the Book of Mormon: A Guide for Missionaries_. Woods Cross, Utah: Aaron Publishing, 1981. Harrison, Grant Von. _Every Missionary Can Baptize_. Provo, Utah: Ensign Publishing, 1981. Harrison, Grant Von. _Missionaries Need to Know God_. Woods Cross, Utah: Publishers Book Sales, 1986. Harrison, Grant Von. _Tools for Missionaries Harvesting the Lord's Way_. Provo, Utah: Ensign Publishing, 1978. Harrison, Grant Von, and Conrad Gottfredson. _Trainer's Manual: Tools for Missionaries_. Provo, Utah: Aaron Publishing and Indexing, 1981. Hartshorn, Leon R. _Inspirational Missionary Stories_. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976. Jacobs, Barbara Tietjen. _So You're Going on a Mission!_ Provo, Utah: Press Publishing, 1968. Jacobs, Barbara [Tietjen] and Briant. _Missions for Married_s. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1983. Kimball, Spencer W[ooley]. _Proclaiming the Gospel: Spencer W. Kimball Speaks on Missionary Work_. Ed. Yoshihiko Kikuchi. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1987. Linford, Richard, and Marilynne Linford. _I Hope They Call Me on a Mission Too_. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1984. Mickel, David R. _Missionaries, Parents, and Girls Who Wait_. Orem, Utah: Randall Book, 1983. Miller, J. Dale. _Practical Proselyting: A Contact-Finding Source Book for Missionaries_. Provo, Utah: By the author, 1982. Naumann, Lissa K. _Waiting for a Missionary_. Salt Lake City: Hawkes Publishing, 1981. Olsen, Lisa Heckmann. "You Can't Reap Unless You Sow: Preparing Now for the Harvest of a Mission." In _Serving with Strength throughout the World: Favorite Talks from Especially for Youth_, 172-84. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1994. Pinegar, Ed J., and Patricia Pinegar. _Preparing for Your Mission_. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992. Pratt, Anne Hinton. _Junior Missionary Handbook_. Bountiful, Utah: Horizon Publishers, 1988. Stoker, Kevin. _Missionary Moment_s. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1989. _ Von Harrison, Grant. Missionaries Need to Know God_. Orem, Utah: Keepsake Paperbacks, 1994. [booklet] Whetten, John D. _Making the Most of Your Mission_. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1981. Yorgason, Blaine [M.], and Brenton [G.] Yorgason. _Cory and the Horned Toad: A Letter to Missionaries and Other Students of the Gospel_. Orem, Utah: Keepsake BookCards, 1989. Yorgason, Blaine [M.], and Brenton [G.] Yorgason. _To Mothers from the Book of Mormon: A Letter to Missionaries and Other Students of the Gospe_l. Orem, Utah: Keepsake BookCards, 1989. - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V1 #487 ******************************