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A Commentary of Stephen G. Taggart’s Mormonism’s Negro Policy: Social and Historical Origins

May 2, 2018

Dialogue 4.4 (Winter 1969): 86–103
Lester E Bush wrote in response to Stephen G Taggart’s book which the author tried to show that the Church came from abololonist ideas because the Church was orginially founded in New York, but when they encountered pro slavery settlers in Missouri and faced the hostiltiy from the settlers early church leaders apparently changed their mind, even though Joseph Smith eventually did a turnabout from what records have shown regarding African Americans.

Boy Diving Through Moss

May 2, 2018

A boy with joy and fear inside
stood on the plank
above the pond.
He sensed the cold, dark water
underneath,
and, daring,

On Haiku Art

May 2, 2018

In the human presence is the real salience of life. I’m interested in that—the human resonance really that exists in all things and so in my work, though somewhat modified, somewhat less than obviously descriptive—not…

President David O. McKay: 1873-1970: President McKay As a Neighbor

May 2, 2018

My grandfather used to say “There’s lots and lots of ‘man-ism’ in Mor monism.” Often we see President McKay and we think and talk of him as the prophet. I grew up in the same little valley in Northern Utah where he was from, and we saw him and thought of him as a man, of the real things he did as our neighbor.