Recognized as a Mormon classic twenty years after its release, The Backslider features longstanding Christian conflicts played out in a scenic, sparsely populated area of southern Utah. A young ranch-hand, Frank Windham, conceives of God as an implacable enemy of human appetite. He is a dedicated sinner until family tragedy catapults him into an arcane form of penitence preached among frontier Mormons. He is saved by an epiphany that has proved both popular and controversial among some readers, either interpreting it as an extreme impiety or celebrating it as a moving and entirely plausible rendering of a biblical theme in a Western setting.
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In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
The majority of Smith's wives were younger than he, and one-third were between fourteen and twenty years of age. Another third were already married, and some of the husbands served as witnesses at their own wife's polyandrous wedding. In...
The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History
Award-winning researcher and writer Devery S. Anderson has brought together in this volume a comprehensive collection of documents relating to Mormon temple worship. These are official communications, most of them never before presented to the general public, limited only...
The Amazing Colossal Apostle: The Search for the Historical Paul
As children, we were told the stories of Paul as didactic tales meant to keep us reverent and obedient. As adults reading the New Testament, we catch glimpses of a very different kind of disciple—an ascetic hermit whom Tertullian...
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February 12th, 2013
New Collection by Celebrated Utah Poet
Howe, an Associate Professor at Brigham Young University finds salt in everyday locations—the white veins that cut through red sandstone, animal lures set out for deer at sunset, and in the sweat she licks from the base of her husband’s neck. To Howe’s fans, this collection will seem like normal fare. They expect pages that sizzle a bit, such as the description of when one woman drives through town and sees a 1965 Thunderbird, then angles over to take a look. “Not of the car,” she confesses, but “the owner—Jake of Jake’s Autos.” Or when she muses about a chorus line of poppies dressed in flimsy skirts over black and green underthings. Howe’s creative eye sees bands of ancient...
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January 8th, 2013
Signature Books Hires Acquisitions Editor
Salt Lake City—He will acquire manuscripts from authors, fact-check their research, write a blog, leap tall buildings, and quite possibly influence the future of Mormon studies forever. Needless to say, expectations are high for John Hatch, Signature Books’s newest staff member who will have his hands full hunting for manuscripts and fact-checking authors’ research. Hatch
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