[…] D. Michael Quinn has declared that God has, in every millennia, had his prophets employ what we call magic in manifesting God’s mysterious works. Despite the accommodation of the religio-occultic phenomenon by Mormon historians, […]
[…] has been teacher, actress, wife, mother, writer, environmentalist, and feminist, all interpreted in her own distinctive style. Now, almost eighty-nine and widowed by Henry’s death in 1988, she is a survivor of resilient spirit. […]
Two years ago the Manhattan First Ward published a small collection of biographies chronicling the lives of nine senior ward members. Impetus for the project came when news reached Bill Cottam during his initial […]
[…] that finally stopped the Salem witch trials. Those trials, perhaps the greatest blot on American religious devotion, had resulted in the deaths of twenty people, all of whom vigorously proclaimed their innocence to the end.
[…] these words is clear: it is only through what the vast majority of the Christian world would call a radical principle of free agency that a just God could possibly hold humans accountable for […]
[…] the world would be like if we didn’t know right from wrong.’” BYU president Rex Lee ( now deceased), interviewed for BYU’s student newspaper, warned: “If his future work follows the same pattern of […]
[…] using Delpha. But Delpha will fit in, rather nicely too, as the minister’s simple daughter, Amanda, she’ll call her, in the next chapter. Noreen always has Protestant ministers in her books, never Mormon bishops. […]
[…] followed her sense of truth. The Jefferson establishment’s lambasting of Brodie’s Jefferson presented Midgley with a seductive call. He would let the secular historians show up her shoddy methods and dubious conclusions. But Midgely is […]
[…] room like a shadow, and never asked him to leave (which he didn’t, except to answer nature’s call in the outback shed), so he heard every last word between them, heard Father tell Mother […]
[…] limitations. This prevented me from doing full justice to the books, and I wish to rectify that now. I confess from the onset that I am favorably impressed with both. Both provide fresh, illuminating […]