What of the Night? edition by Stephen Carter Anna Waschke Religion Spirituality eBooks
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"By proving contraries, truth is made manifest," said Joseph Smith.
Good thing, because Stephen Carter's religious life is full of contradictions. "Sometimes the priesthood is a wonderful thing to me," he writes. "Other times, it's an oppressive weight. Sometimes I can feel the binding power of the temple. Other times, it seems only to cut me off from my loved ones. My mission was at once an elating and awful time."
A Cub Scout fishing trip reveals Christianity's earthier corners. Receiving the priesthood sends Carter on a spiritual roller-coaster ride. A death-metal concert hammers into him a whole new definition of spirituality. This collection of award-winning personal essays wrestles the "used tin foil, the ratty teddy bears, the rusty bicycle frames, the dog-eared magazines, the empty toilet paper rolls" of Carter's life into stories compelling, candid, and insightful.
What of the Night? edition by Stephen Carter Anna Waschke Religion Spirituality eBooks
The personal essays in Stephen Carter's collection relate familiar Mormon experiences (non-member boyhood friends, priesthood blessings, missionary service, “wayward” family members) with engaging honesty and insight. What I admire most is that Carter doesn’t shy away from inspecting personal conflicts between faith and practice, yet neither does he interpret them as failures—his own or the system’s. In describing his experiences meeting with Mormon scholars as Eugene England’s administrative assistant, Carter writes, “When one proves contraries, Gene always argued, you aren’t doing so to identify which is right and which is wrong but to experience the tension between them. It is the experience of dwelling in this tension that makes you wiser.”This effort to avoid wholesale affirmation or denunciation is well expressed in the essay “The Departed”: "I was trying to find my way out of the huge story that insisted on telling me. I was also trying to find a way to not slip into the opposite path, the anti-Mormon story, since they are merely two side of the same coin—both interested in me only as fodder for their own consumption."
Does Carter succeed in exploring his LDS identity with neither an anti-Mormon nor (for lack of a better term) a pro-Mormon slant? Is that even possible? You can write about your identity as an American without addressing the “best nation on earth” exceptionalism, but if you don’t address in some way a person’s stance on the LDS claim that the Church is the most true on earth, how fully are you describing that person as a Mormon?
Carter’s aim is for observations, not conclusions. His intent—which his stories keenly enact—is captured in the interpretation he gives of the Savior’s injunction "judge not, that ye be not judged": "Perhaps he meant that while we're in the act of judging, we're not in the act of understanding.”
Understanding is what I look for most in what I read. Okay, that and careful, compelling writing. This book offered me all three, and I’m glad I accepted.
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What of the Night? edition by Stephen Carter Anna Waschke Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
This is a great book of essays. I enjoyed each one. The essay entitled "The Departed" was my favorite.
I was sad to finish the book and hope for more from this great author!
Stunning collection. Loved every essay.
A pleasant mash of moments unique to Stephen and common to many a Mormon man. For some reason, it was completely blacked out on my Touch, but perfectly readable in Cloud and for PC.
Carter does a wonderful job of honest portrayal of the paradoxes found within the Mormon faith, with still a hope that points towards God. His essays are well crafted with a wry sense of humor that seeps with honesty. The book provides a platform for deeper thought and conversation and certainly worthy of any readers time.
Stephen has done it again with his amazing ability to paint some amazing pictures with the words that he uses. This book gives some amazing incite into his days growing up in a light yet serious tone depending on how you want to read it. Definitely recommend this. I've met him in person a few times and this novel reflects him very well.
The personal essays in Stephen Carter's collection relate familiar Mormon experiences (non-member boyhood friends, priesthood blessings, missionary service, “wayward” family members) with engaging honesty and insight. What I admire most is that Carter doesn’t shy away from inspecting personal conflicts between faith and practice, yet neither does he interpret them as failures—his own or the system’s. In describing his experiences meeting with Mormon scholars as Eugene England’s administrative assistant, Carter writes, “When one proves contraries, Gene always argued, you aren’t doing so to identify which is right and which is wrong but to experience the tension between them. It is the experience of dwelling in this tension that makes you wiser.”
This effort to avoid wholesale affirmation or denunciation is well expressed in the essay “The Departed” "I was trying to find my way out of the huge story that insisted on telling me. I was also trying to find a way to not slip into the opposite path, the anti-Mormon story, since they are merely two side of the same coin—both interested in me only as fodder for their own consumption."
Does Carter succeed in exploring his LDS identity with neither an anti-Mormon nor (for lack of a better term) a pro-Mormon slant? Is that even possible? You can write about your identity as an American without addressing the “best nation on earth” exceptionalism, but if you don’t address in some way a person’s stance on the LDS claim that the Church is the most true on earth, how fully are you describing that person as a Mormon?
Carter’s aim is for observations, not conclusions. His intent—which his stories keenly enact—is captured in the interpretation he gives of the Savior’s injunction "judge not, that ye be not judged" "Perhaps he meant that while we're in the act of judging, we're not in the act of understanding.”
Understanding is what I look for most in what I read. Okay, that and careful, compelling writing. This book offered me all three, and I’m glad I accepted.
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