One might say of Mormonism, as the Apostle Paul said of Christianity in his testimony before King Agrippa, “This thing was not done in a corner.” Before the Book of Mormon was off the press,…
The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use . . . Henry James. The Aspern Papers History is bunk. Henry Ford The books, periodicals, and manuscripts listed in bibliographies are of little value…
The Mormon who reads a text on the sociology of religion such as this one by Thomas F. O’Dea of Columbia University, formerly of the University of Utah, will better appreciate the book if he…
In a sense this review can be termed an attempt to make much of fairly little, for the amount of space devoted to Mormonism in each of these works is very small — six pages…
For those interested in expanding our understanding of the phenomena of Mormonism and of Judaism, the appearance of Glanz’s Jew and Mormon should have constituted an event of some significance. Students of the history of…
Jonathan Hughes has written a spritely book about those men, the vital few in American history, who have had a major impact on our economic growth. Brigham Young is selected as one of them. Hughes,…
This was the dream, beginning with a questFor isolated work, that brought them westTo Salt Lake Valley, looking for new startsAnd land in Zion, pushing stock and cartsOut of the world into Millennium In the Rocky…
Lift your withered hands and feelThe rush of words push from below.Lift up your dying hands and write. Trace the lifted arc of wheel Pitting itself against the flow Of earth’s slow water in the night. Force…
This is not tragedy. A child Cannot suffer nobly, nor fling a wildCurse at the sky and die. A child can only flinch and cry,Soft hands outspread. No clenched fistFor you, my little one. You are pathos, I…
Joseph, according to the record just, angel-riddenand consulted last, what glory may you claim?Was yours a father’s care, but, God-bidden,respect for foster child you could not name?Was your pride greater than any heart-hiddencommon love for…