Confusion, U.S.A. | John Birch Society, Anarchy, U.S.A
May 4, 2018The John Birch Society is showing a film around called “Anarchy, U.S.A.” I saw it at a meeting of Young Republicans at the College of San Mateo on January 10, 1967. The point of the…
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The “Legend” and the “Case” of Joe Hill | Philip S. Foner, The Case of Joe Hill
May 4, 2018Legends often live on simply because believers like them. Some people like them so much they want to prove them. Legends may have their origins in real situations and may have relationships to some facts,…
Homestead In Idaho
May 4, 2018I “Solomon? Since I talked with him I’ve thoughtAgain about trying to make a go of it In Idaho. As I say, this rainy weather In Oregon is looking better and better to me.The first time I…
Villanelle For Our Elder Brother
May 4, 2018give shouting that he swallowed up the moat.(the serpent he devoured and siphoned in)and that he steered the river with no boat. give singing that he made our dusk, a float.(our night become a sphere…
The Bible, the Church, and Its Scholars
May 4, 2018In Professor Snell’s article and in the response to it by Professor Sperry, one finds the work of two committed members of the Church, who nevertheless appear to differ greatly on their interpretation of the…
Scholars and Prophets
May 4, 2018Professor Snell’s article, “The Bible in the Church,” leaves me with very mixed feelings. On the first page of his essay he implies that his criticisms are intended to be constructive and that he seeks…
The Bible in the Church
May 4, 2018My apologia—if one is needed—for this essay may be presented and done with at once. I have been aware, as a member of the Church,[1] of its great resources as a moral and spiritual force…
Art and Belief: A Critique
May 4, 2018The recent exhibit of paintings by Mormon artists held at the Salt Lake City Public Library was not, as many people hoped or expected, a confirmation of what might be called a Mormon style. The…
Art and Belief: A Group Exhibition
May 4, 2018Could there be a “Mormon Art”—something different, vital, worthy of both words, Mormon and art? During the school year 1965-66 this and related questions were being discussed much around the B.Y.U. art department, mostly on…
An Honorable Surrender: The Experience of Conversion
May 4, 2018Not infrequently a Mormon convert thinks back on those events and feelings which preceded his decision to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He may wish to recall these things not so…