RFK at BYU
May 3, 2018Thank you very much. Thank you. I appreciate very much being here . . . I understand that this is a campus made up of all political persuasions. I had a very nice conversation with…
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The Vietnam War Through the Eyes of a Mormon Subculture
May 3, 2018This study was conducted at Brigham Young University in order to assess student views toward the war in a subculture where the norms of Mormonism are overwhelmingly dominant. Brigham Young University is perhaps the only…
Among the Mormons: A Survey of Current Literature
May 3, 2018I would the gift I offer hereMight graces fro thy favor take. John Greenleaf Whittier, Songs of Labor An article in the June 1, 1968, Church News entitled “BYU Gets Rare Books” described items of…
Mrs. Brodie and Joseph Smith | F. L. Stewart, Exploding the Myth about Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
May 3, 2018Dialogue 3.3 (Fall 1968): 142–145
In response to Fawn Brodies’s biography of Joseph Smith, F.L. Stewart published a book called Exploding the Myth About Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet.
A Mirror for Mormon’s | Richard F. Burton, The City of the Saints
May 3, 2018A superlative is an automatic challenge, and when Mrs. Brodie calls City of the Saints “the best book on the Mormons published during the nineteenth century,” my impulse is to disprove it. At surface glance…
One Man’s Utah | Wayne Stout, History of Utah
May 3, 2018The writing of history is fraught with difficulties because the historian has no direct access to the past. Through newspapers, diaries, journals, and public documents prior events may be glimpsed as shadows, but even then…
Whose Victory? | W. Cleon Skousen, Fantastic Victory: Israel’s Rendezvous with Destiny
May 3, 2018Fantastic Victory is without a doubt the most ambitious attempt by any “Mormon scholar” to set the recent Arab—Israeli conflict into some perspec tive. Cleon Skousen, in the amazingly short period of less than three…
A Translation of the Apparent Source of the Book of Abraham
May 3, 2018The speed with which photographs of the Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri were published once they came into the possession of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a gratifying contrast to the secrecy with which their previous custodians surrounded them. The definitive edition of the documents will take time, but in the meantime the Egyptologist can show his appreciation by taking advantage of the opportunity to make preliminary studies.
Mormons in the Executive Suite
May 3, 2018Only in a city can a full cast of characters for the human drama be assembled; hence only in the city is there sufficient diversity and competition to enliven the plot and bring the performers up to the highest pitch…
Art and the Church
May 3, 2018It is through the performance of creative arts, in art, in thought in personal relationships that the city can be identified as something more than a purely functional organization . . . Lewis Mumford Perhaps it is presumptuous to…