Notes from a Mormon Movie-goer
May 1, 2018I’m more than a movie-goer, I’m a critic. That means the question, “What did you think of (any movie)?” requires more than “It was great” or “It was lousy.” It means I’m hardly ever paid…
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Psychotherapy with Mormon Patients in Utah and Southern California—Impressionistic Observations
May 1, 2018Since 1952 I have conducted a part-time private practice along with university teaching. On leaves from the university and during summer months I have worked as a clinical psychologist at the Utah State Hospital in…
Sources of Mormon Americana in Utah
May 1, 2018This paper was written during the summer of 1968 for a course in special problems in the acquisition of materials at the UCLA Graduate School of Library Service. The original paper has been revised and condensed for the readers of Dialogue since much of it dealt with the historiographical problems inherent in the collecting of Mormon material, a subject which has been treated at length by Dialogue and other sources.
This paper is not intended to be an exhaustive study, but is rather a brief survey of the collections of Mormon Americana in the Salt Lake City area, all of which I have visited with the exception of the Church Historian’s Office. The purpose, then, of this treatise is to introduce these libraries to those people unfamiliar with their resources and to discuss some of the idiosyncracies of each collection. Also included is a brief discussion of the new bibliography on Mormon Americana.
The Church and the Orient | Spencer J. Palmer, The Church Encounters Asia
May 1, 2018The motion picture Mondo Cane taught us that the chronicler’s job is to assemble his collectanea in straightforward reportage. Dr. Palmer’s book is a lucid chronicle (from 1851 to 1969) of some missionarying Mormons turning…
Another View of the Mormons | Kathleen Elgin, The Mormons: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
May 1, 2018The Mormons is the second in the Freedom to Worship series designed to tell stories of “outstanding Americans of the nineteenth century and their different religious beliefs.” The series is intended to fit into the…
Dialogue East | Courage: A Journal of History, Thought, and Action
May 1, 2018In the spring of 1970, with the biennial world conference of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints approaching, an acute polarization of theological positions and emotional sets seemed to have occurred in the movement over the identity, the character, and the mission of the (RLDS) church.
The Manipulation of History | Can We Manipulate the Past? By Fawn Brodie
May 1, 2018Dialogue 5.3 (Fall 1970): 96–99
Marvin S Hill was responding to Fawn Brodie’s lecture at the Hotel Utah in 1970 called “Can We Manipulate the Past?” Her point in giving it was she was claiming that the people in charge only emphasize the points of history that fit their gains. She then compared that to Church Leaders only focusing on Joseph Smith’s early attitudes towards slavery, but then she claimed that Church Leaders didn’t focus on the fact that in the future he changed his mind regarding Slavery and became more against it, kind of like Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson. Marvin S Hill kept mentioning that she overlooked certain aspects.
Upon This Rock
May 1, 2018We laughed in the temple
and found favor where
the Lord lashed with lightening and laughed too
when he saw the size of salvation.
A Name and a Blessing
May 1, 2018the father and his friends, holding
the holy high priesthood and the infant,
stand in a circle, facing each other,
right hands supporting the baby—
rising, falling to gentle it—
left hands on the next near neighbor shoulder,
on the stand before the meeting of saints
this fast and testimony Sunday;
A Lesson from the Past
May 1, 2018The year was 1856. Times were bad, economically, in Europe and particularly in England. In Utah, as in most developing economies, the need for human resources was high. Emigration committees were formed and funds collected…