Two plays about the struggle for faith. THE FADING FLOWER: Emma Smith had brought up her children to honor the memory of their father Joseph Smith, the martyred Mormon Prophet. Yet when her son David Hyrum Smith starts investigating the mysteries behind his father's involvement in polygamy and goes West to mingle with the "Brighamite" faction of Mormonism, Emma must confront a chapter in her life that she would have preferred to have left closed. SWALLOW THE SUN: Before he became one of the world's greatest defenders of Christianity and the beloved author of The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. "Jack" Lewis was a staunch atheist. This is the stirring and powerful story of his early life as he journeyed from entrenched skeptic to one of modern Christianity's most eloquent and courageous advocates.

"Saints on Stage" is the most comprehensive and important work on Mormon drama ever published. This volume anthologizes some of Mormonism's best plays from the last several decades, many of them published here for the first time. Several of these plays have won honors from institutions as varied as the Kennedy Center and the Association for Mormon Letters.

This volume includes historical backgrounds and playwright biographies, as well as an introduction that provides an extensive overview of Mormon drama. The following plays are included:

"Fires of the Mind, " Robert Elliott

"Huebener, " Thomas F. Rogers

"Burdens of Earth, " Susan Elizabeth Howe

"J. Golden, " James Arrington

"Matters of the Heart, " Thom Duncan

"Gadianton, " Eric Samuelsen

"Hancock County, " Tim Slover

"Stones, " J. Scott Bronson

"Farewell to Eden, " Mahonri Stewart

"Martyrs' Crossing, " Melissa Leilani Larson

"I Am Jane, " Margaret Blair Young