Although this book has an overly dramatic title, it is a magnificent and sensitive history of the efforts by church members and leaders to respond meaningfully to economic need, not only in LDS communities but…
You, my father,
Too damned independent at seventy-five
To admit you could no longer handle
A simple double-edge Gillette,
“Let’s see what sort of surprises await us in Jennifer’s story,” Jean-Paul said wearily and shuffled the story pages on his desk, as though by doing so he would impose order on narrative chaos. What…
There are significant differences between historical investigation of controversial issues and the polemical use of history. Jeff D. Blake’s essay is a textbook example of polemics impersonating as history. First, he employs the classic “straw…
The summer 1993 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought featured D. Michael Quinn’s near-definitive discussion of Ezra Taft Benson’s political activities during the 1960s and 1970s.[1] Despite Quinn’s thorough documentation, in the section…
She was learning German that year,
a war bride, living in Darmstadt,
trying to say ich in the back of her throat,
the guttural r of Herr and Frau, to introduce
Shortly after Mormon pioneers arrived in Utah in July 1847 Brigham Young planned for an anticipated population explosion by exploring the region and locating sites which could support new settlements and industries. Parley P. Pratt…
And God came to me and shewed me
a boat on troubled waters.
“Shall you stretch forth your hand
to steady the vessel before it founders?”
“I shall,” I said, and took the boat
in my hand and removed it from danger.
I was a blessed child. I had a grandmother who loved me and who showed it. Her name was Ruth Alice Bird Harper Lewis, and as grand mothers go, she was a rare and wonderful…
The ancient Chinese curse has plainly caught up with the LDS church over the past decade—never have the Saints lived in more interesting times. The recent whirlwind of world political changes has opened up mission fields undreamed of only a few years ago, faster almost than we can respond. It has also made us the target of anti-American sentiment and violence. Yet, in spite of all, church membership has now reached nine million.