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When I say to you the Mormons must go, I speak the mind of the camp and country. They can leave without force or injury to themselves or their property, but I say to you,…

As the only missions of the Church to major non-Christian cultures, the missions of Asia (with the exception of the Philippines, which is predominantly Catholic) are of special interest and present unique problems to those…

This is a public relations picture book presenting a collection of photographs from the Improvement Era and The Relief Society Magazine, with portraits of Relief Society Presidents, past and present, and one or two interesting…

Ours, it seems, is a scientific age. We insist that “clinical tests confirm” the virtue of everything from toothpaste to dog food. Why not, therefore, religion? So it is that the author directs our attention…

I think that at some far-distant point in time the history of Mormon poetry may well have to be said to have begun with Clinton F. Larson and this first collection of his verse, The…

the sacrament is loosed; 
the trays go as a fleet of grace 
into our garnered sea 
of lap and hand, 
and this envoy, 
this ark of my covenant 
lilts over me: a gentle craft
riddled with remembrance 

The myth and the reality convey the sign: 
INRI, but we in the distance of history, 
Precise and limitless, survey and then define 
His suffering again, for our consistory. 
We know in the analogues of formulative speech 
That Pretonious drove Him down against the cross 
And split His palms where they could reach. 
Crimen est actio before this miracle of dross.