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Blessed Damozels: Women in Mormon History

Historians have long recognized the role of women in the development of Western civilization and culture, but for some reason the role of women in Mormon history has been overlooked. Among both Mormon and non-Mormon…

I Married a Family

I often spoke in jest of our “Compound-Complex Family,” but I was firm in my resolution to make this marriage and our family life a success. I well knew that I could never have the…

Full House

I wake up in the morning to the sound of my husband’s voice. But it is not really an awakening, rather it is a continuing. For night as we used to know it no longer…

Introduction

In June of last year a dozen or so matrons in the Boston area gathered to discuss their lives. The Women’s Liberation movement was then in full flower, making converts and causing all women to…

Reprise

After the marches 
 after the telegrams 
  and the petitions 
   the letters to the editor 

The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola, dir., The Godfather

I drove to the city to see “The Godfather.” I worried about it because it had an “R” rating. By way of comparison, “The Graduate” is now rated only “PG,” despite those lurid bed scenes with Mrs. Robinson, and the frequent taking of the Lord’s name in vain. So because “The Godfather” was rated “R,” I expected the worst. Half way to Idaho Falls, I nearly turned back. But now I can report to you that “The Godfather” is not deserving of its “R” rating. It’s relatively clean. 

Recent Scholarship on New World Archaeology | Carrol L. Riley, J. Charles Kelley, Campbell W. Pennington, and Robert L. Rands, eds., Man Across the Sea: Problems in Pre-Columbian Contacts, and Cyrus Gordon, Before Columbus: Links Between the Old World and Ancient America

Latter-day Saints have long had an interest in pre-Columbian ocean travel. Americanist scholars, with a few notable exceptions such as Gordon Ekholm, J. Charles Kelley and a few others, have in the past either rejected…

Among the Mormons: A Survey of Current Literature

The world of Mormon-directed periodicals continues to thrive as new journals appear and old (those that began within the last few years) journals struggle for continued existence