Martin Harris: Mormonism’s Early Convert
April 17, 2018[…] saw in the dark corner an emaciated man, who beckoned him to pull up a chair. “ Now, Willie,” the old man said after learning his name, “tomorrow night after your chores are done […]
[…] saw in the dark corner an emaciated man, who beckoned him to pull up a chair. “ Now, Willie,” the old man said after learning his name, “tomorrow night after your chores are done […]
[…] on him.) I was in the Relief Society presidency, and the Sunday after he received the telephone call, the counselor sauntered up to me in the ward foyer with a huge grin. “All right, […]
[…] her in her place. Being quite naive about serpents, she bites, and lo and behold, it works! Now she gets it. Adam, come here, she says, I’ve got something to show you. Some villain! […]
[…] and Dwain when he had been alive and she didn’t want a barrier between her and me now that he was gone. She put an arm about my waist and I put an arm […]
[…] pression by an evil spirit before being called as a General Authority (pp. 112-13); prophecies of his call (pp. 114-15); and twenty odd others. This fund of stories will enrich the public speaking of […]
[…] the scriptures” (1988, 72). To cite one example, Bailey states that Einstein’s theory of relativity is “ now considered to be among the most universal and firmly grounded of all scientific theories” (p. 62). […]
[…] reasons are several and compelling. In the first place, author Wayne C. Booth, surely one of the most significant critics now writing in English and perhaps in any language, unashamedly traces his roots to Mormonism.
[…] lawyer and seventh president of Brigham Young University, campaign politics was a game he could never master. From his rowdy youth in Ogden, Utah’s notorious Hell’s Half-Acre district, where blind eyes turned to cock-fighting […]
<i>Dialogue 26.4 (Winter 1993): 1–22</i><br> The analysis that follos is an admittedly speculative personal reflection on elements that need to be kept in mind in understanding the psychological dynamics of Joseph Smith’s creativity.
[…] for instance. He had arrived forty minutes early for a bishopric meeting he himself had earlier cancelled. Now he had two hours to kill before putting on his bishop’s face for sacrament meeting. The […]