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Among the Mormons: A Survey of Current Literature
April 29, 2018Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. —Edward Young, Love of Fame It has been this writer’s practice in the past to single out a sample of theses…
Jonathan Livingston Seagull: An Ornithologist’s Rod McKuen | Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
April 29, 2018Listen-up bird-lovers, Hindus, Eddy Rickenbacker, Father Schillebeechx, and Unitarians everywhere: Jonathan Livingston Seagull has arrived! Somewhat sooner and with greater flurry than many of us would have wished, perhaps, but, then, that’s his style, and…
Women: One Man’s Opinion | Rodney Turner, Woman and the Priesthood
April 29, 2018Rodney Turner, a BYU professor of Church history and doctrine and a scholar widely revered as the conservatives’ conservative, here attempts to answer some of the burning contemporary questions about which the scriptures are so…
Brodie Revisited: A Reappraisal | Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
April 29, 2018For more than a quarter century Fawn Brodie’s No Man Knows My History has been recognized by most professional American historians as the standard work on the life of Joseph Smith and perhaps the most…
Graduate School: A Personal Odyssey
April 29, 2018Approaching the end of my career as a graduate student, I find myself in quite a different situation from that of my “gentile” colleagues. A quiet despair pervades most graduate student circles today, but unlike…
The Jimson Hill Branch
April 29, 2018Samuel Jimson
Gave the land to God
To save the souls of
Progeny unborn.
The Case for a Married Jesus
April 29, 2018Appreciation is overdue for a Mormon who had the insight and courage to revive a Hebraic viewpoint toward Jesus’ relationships with women. Orson Hyde, the President of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, in a sermon…
Mahonri Young and the Church: A View of Mormonism and Art
April 29, 2018So much of Utah’s early history has religious significance that the artist attempting to preserve its heritage has often found himself interpreting people and events of some concern to the Mormon Church. To the truly creative artist, dealing with a vested interest group such as a church in interpreting history and life through art can be frustrating. Mutual cooperation can lead to great artistic achievements which otherwise would go uncreated for lack of interest and funding.
Stress Points in Mormon Family Culture
April 29, 2018There is much that is commendable about the Latter-day Saint family system: its attention to lasting values and eternal life; its embeddedness and centrality within the religious culture; organized efforts to stimulate and strengthen the…