Last night I had pizza for dinner. Though I liked the taste, I felt I’d not had quite a complete meal. I also enjoyed An Abundant Life, the oral reminiscences of Hugh Brown Brown, a…
Dialogue 22.2 (Summer 1992): 146–147
In The Conferring Church, Richard and Marjorie Troeh present a detailed description of the RLDS conference process.
Praise to the mostly anonymous team from F.A.R.M.S. who produced this massive work. They deserve praise first for dedicating so much time and effort to careful research through manuscripts, computer indexes, and printed material. Second,…
No one today knows more about the handwriting, letters, and other documents produced by Joseph Smith, Jr., than Dean C. Jessee. Long a careful student of these primary resources, his comprehensive editing of the Prophet’s writings…
Students of Utah and Mormon historiography ought to be rejoicing at the flowering of literature in that field over recent years. Beginning perhaps in the last decade with Wallace Stegner’s biography of Bernard DeVoto and…
The banquet table was spread,
But I could no longer smell
Satisfaction in the room.
We couldn’t find anyone
in that inner-city maze.
Between thick buildings
My ex-grandmother-in-law is dying upstairs. Her being with me was my ex-husband’s idea. He said I could have the house if she stayed in it. I reminded him that Gran hated me. He said, “She…
I spent many hours in the Sunset Ward chapel in San Francisco when I was growing up. It was a handsome building, unlike any other ever built in the Church. Firmly planted on a hillside…
More than twenty years ago I was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I can’t speak for the Church, but I suspect it is safe to say that neither…