Charles Peterson is a man of history who, like a sociologist, examines the changing aspirations and problems of the Mormons who lived along the Little Colorado during the latter part of the nineteenth century. I…
The Joy of Being a Woman, a feminine companion to Win If You Will by Paul H. Dunn, could undoubtedly be used for illustrating talks and Relief Society lessons dutifully woven to bind sisters tightly…
At Christmas time I like to read the Gospels again. Partly out of tradition, no doubt, and the love of tradition. For in tradition lies much of the special charm and cheer of holidays. But…
Infinite distance: old conceit.
These hills bound sight, define the length
Our fathers, innocent of defeat,
Might seed their strength.
(to my daughter—in explanation of her name)
Balance is what we mean the name
to tell her when she’s suckled news
into her brain that birth knits her
into the nervous system of
the spastic, plastic planet,
Frontier Village, restored and furnished
with relics of ancestral time
includes live anachronisms.
So we saunter to see the buffalo, laughing,
swinging up between corral boards
and nearly boot it in the rump as we demand,
“Where’s the buffalo?—oh!”
Amy was a child when Congress passed the Edmunds Bill, assuring the end of polygamous living in Utah, but she was old enough to know that Aunt Edna was not her aunt at all but…
Paradise lost, according to Marcel Proust, is the only real paradise. Proust’s lost Eden was Illiers-Combray, a village whose medieval church tower and encircling wall gave to his childhood, by their great age, a sense…
Both within and without the LDS Church Latter-day Saint archaeologists traditionally have been regarded as scriptural archaeologists. Although this was prob ably accurate through the 1950s, in the past decade a new generation of Mormon…
“Mormonism” must surely be the only major religious movement whose founder was fascinated by archaeology and whose members are imbued with a mystique based upon archaeological findings.[1] Because of this element of faith, scientists who are not Mormons have…