We often hear the phrase, “The Church is the same all over the world.” While a mutual commitment to the gospel provides a feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood that transcends many cultural barriers, I feel…
A few years ago on a cross-country trip, my brother Paul and I detoured from Interstate 70 in western Missouri for some site-seeing. After stopping at the Far West temple site and the town square…
A 1974 article published in Science identified the Mormon culture as an unusually productive source of American scientists and scholars, an achievement linked to such distinctive tenets of Mormon theology as rationalism, natural law, and…
Mary Firmage, daughter of President Hugh B. Brown, has recently deposited a large collection of her father’s personal letters in the Church Archives. President Brown wrote part of this correspondence while he was mission president…
“Mother, do you know your boyfriend is a poor, old, decrepit, forgotten has-been? I can’t see to read, I can’t hear, my nose drips, my hands shake, I drool. Here I come, just shuffling down…
In 1969 Edwin B. Firmage taped oral history interviews with his grandfather, Hugh B. Brown. The following essay has been adapted from these memoirs, which will be published by Signature Books in 1988 as An Abundant Life: The Memoirs of Hugh B. Brown.
Southern Illinois in sweltering and wet summer.
Thunder and the whippoorwill sing strange
duets at night.
From southwestern deserts to the closest
I drive by a red farmhouse
in the setting sun. Orange morning
darts through rippled glass.
High-glossed linoleum
At the age of seven Mary Bradford imagined herself presenting a story to a New York publisher, the manuscript “rolled into a scroll and tied with a yellow ribbon” (p. 16). Now in midlife she wonders…
Few recent books substantiate the major claims of Restoration faith as well as Graydon Snyder’s Ante Pacem. A professor at Bethany Theological Seminary, Snyder convincingly shows that the early church had structures and cultic forms…