And We Were Young
April 25, 2018I will tell you now that words come hard for me. Perhaps that is why I value them so highly. And I make no apology for being simple where most men are complex and complex where many men are simple.
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Spitting Mad | Ben F. Mortensen, If You’re Mad, Spit! And Other Aids to Coping
April 25, 2018Dr. Mortensen’s book is readable; it has a flowing style and is brief. The author is entertaining, effectively using case vignettes to illustrate his points. Perhaps because of the brevity and ease of reading I…
The Hinckley Institution | Robert H. Hinckley and JoAnn Jacobsen Wells, “I’d Rather Be Born Lucky Than Rich”: The Autobiography of Robert H. Hinckley
April 25, 2018Robert Hinckley is clearly one of Utah’s most distinguished sons. In a career spanning over a half century, both in Utah and on the national level, he has worn a number of different hats—politician, government…
Fruitless Wait | Elisabeth Macdonald, Watch for the Morning
April 25, 2018Kate and Mary Ann Hamilton, mother and daughter, are nineteenth-century Mormon women whose romantic dreams are serially shattered during the forty years spanned in this novel, a story, hopes its author, that “has something to…
Robert Leroy Parker on Family History | Lulu Parker Betenson, Butch Cassidy, My Brother, and Larry Pointer, In Search of Butch Cassidy
April 25, 2018What interest can two books about an outlaw have for Dialogue readers? An obvious answer is that Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, was a Mormon boy who went bad, but another is that these…
An Enduring History | Charles S. Peterson, Utah: A Bicentennial History
April 25, 2018The States and the Nation Series is a set of histories of each state and the District of Columbia “designed to assist the American people in a serious look at the ideals they have espoused…
Selected Newspapers Articles on Mormons and Mormonism Published During 1977
April 25, 2018Today there are more than 1,700 daily newspapers in the United States, many of which have circulations of several hundred thousand. Yet once a particular day’s news is superseded by the next, what remains is…
Memorial Day, 1978
April 25, 2018Morning
My father’s body sounds,
those noises keeping him alive,
I hold dear and dumb, my own:
his son’s heart pounds
Road to Damascus
April 25, 2018At evening Paul contemplated two trees on a distant ridge. They were both firs, one tall, straight, conical; the other curiously warped midtrunk into a great bent bush of a tree. The crippled tree troubled…
A Special Relationship: J. Bracken Lee and the Mormon Church
April 25, 2018J. Bracken Lee, a non-Mormon in an overwhelmingly Mormon state, became its most colorful and controversial politician with probably a greater impact on his state and the nation than any Utah figure since Brigham Young.…