Late in October 1830, four tired Mormon missionaries reached the village of Mentor, Ohio. Their leader, Parley P. Pratt, had persuaded them to walk two hundred miles out of. their way to bring the message…
“Thank goodness I don’t have to live there! How do they stand it?” The revolting, depressing drabness and ugliness of the little Mormon towns we were driving through made my artist’s soul shiver. Never had I…
Let me begin by admitting that my title, and perhaps my entire paper, begs a major philosophical question. I am well aware of the age-old debate over the reality of free will. I am aware of…
Twelve-year-old Missy watched as her younger sister Becky walked exuberantly down the steps into the baptismal font. She saw the shiver of excitement that possessed her at the first touch of the water. She listened…
In the spring of 1968 a Mormon fellow-student, Bob Lemkau, and I attended sessions on nonviolence and revolution taught by radical students at U.C., Berkeley. Through four years of classes at Berkeley, and culminating in…
If viewed in terms of quantitative measurements, economic progress dictates not only the physical image of a landscape but, more potentially, the cycles and processes inherent in that landscape as well. There is, of course,…
Mormons are usually startled by the appearance of new theological movements in Catholic or Protestant circles. Without probing into their content, analyzing their presuppositions, or seeking to understand their origins, they often dismiss these movements…
In view of the fact that my father had sacrificed both worldly goods and his chances in heaven for the dream of the great patriarchal family, it is ironical that the only time all six…
I’m fifty. I’m not as perceptive about certain things in life as I was when I was a student; however in some ways I am more perceptive. When I was nineteen, during the depression, after…
A continuing problem of the Mormon intellectual is to remain both Mormon and intellectual. His is the problem of religious intellectuals generally—to dare to follow where the mind leads, to prevent the indecision that comes…