Literature, Mormon Writers, and the Powers That Be
May 3, 2018For the better part of a month, I was with a group of young Mormons bent on giving the Church a vigorous expression in all the arts. We were not very clear as […]
For the better part of a month, I was with a group of young Mormons bent on giving the Church a vigorous expression in all the arts. We were not very clear as […]
[…] each of their academic disciplines. Up until about two years ago, city dwellers in Poland could even buy Time or News week right from their newsstands under a cultural agreement with the United States. […]
[…] the conclusions are obvious, Nibley has not made a special effort to call attention to them (why buy trouble?), and it is with some reluctance that I do so. The mood among some Mormons […]
[…] California: the author, 1969. Baker, Pearl. Trail on the Water. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Co., 1969? $ 6.95. Biography of Bert Loper. Barlow, Israel Family Association. Family Recordings of Nauvoo — 1845 and Before. Salt […]
[…] brothers, and my father and I had been very close. Even before I was old enough to buy a license for anything or even shoot, he took me hunting. He helped me make my […]
[…] H. Roberts, A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Century I ( 6 vols.; Salt Lake City, 1930). Volume II deals with the Nauvoo period. Roberts probably also played […]
[…] state, in the nation, and in the minds of Mormon themselves. The Niles National Register for August 6, reported that the Mormons had “six thousand votes under their immediate control, sufficient to give them […]
[…] 2,000 people made the trip to Utah in 1847. The following year an additional number of nearly 3,000 joined them. With Salt Lake City only fourteen months of age, it had a population of […]
[…] have as good an education as his brother got and they could not prevent it” (Rigdon, p. 3). He read all the books he could borrow from his neighbors. His particular interests were his […]
[…] why, when they are able to move a step up the economic ladder, they don’t want to buy anything Provincial or Early American, but usually enter with joy and relief into the Outer Space […]