[…] of Calvinism,” and that by Joseph’s time “the family could scarcely connect with mainstream Protestantism” (pp. 5, 6). This is hard to accept when the revolt against Calvinism was almost universal in the United […]
[…] Milton Christensen called him to serve as his second counselor. The president commented in the mission journal, 6 February 1958, “The Lord truly blessed me in the selection of This Elder, who is very […]
<i>Dialogue 21. 3 (Fall 1988): 73–85</i><br>I used to love this description because my Mormon heaven seemed far superior to this standard Christian heaven that Twain’s Satan describes. Sexual intercourse does have a place in […]
[…] authors add no extraneous details, assumptions, or conjecture. They let the facts speak for themselves, without glossing over anything — including serious mistakes made by some LDS General Authorities. The form of the book […]
[…] article, clarifying this situation, accurately portraying the various sides in the matter, and presumably defending one approach over others, would have made a real contribution to the much-needed dialogue on this subject. But on […]
[…] winter, the only customers were coal truckers and on Saturday nights underaged boys from Helaman trying to buy beer. I spent the winter months in town with Aunt Fran, partly because it was closer […]
[…] in the yard. The police were very kind. They made him return the three idle carts and buy the fourth. Two weeks later the same officers returned with a blaze orange stocking cap. They […]
Spring sneaked into town while court convened. One noon, I walk from my office to my old neighborhood and find it well-kept. The ditch I’d hurtle galloping home from school has been curbed and guttered.
[…] house were a garden and a barnyard from which came eggs, tomatoes, corn, and milk. One could buy shovels, shoes, and firecrackers at the ACMI, the Church-owned cooperative. Along the lanes were ripgut juniper […]
[…] 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 […]