[…] it is unperceptive to dismiss Mormonism “as little more than an elaborate idiosyncratic strain of the nineteenth-century search for primitive Christianity” (p. 68), or to perceive twentieth century Mormonism as “an idiosyncratic Protestant denomination” […]
Dialogue 18.4 (Winter 1984): 65–80 Shortly after the church was organized, one of Joseph Smith’s main priorities during his lifetime was preaching to the Native Americans, who he believed to be the descendants of […]
[…] Discourses of Brigham Young as a seventeen-year-old, and the quality of Brother Brigham’s mind, which saw this world astutely but looked through it into the eternal worlds without even a blink of separation, intoxicated […]
[…] quoted in the 1975 Seminary Teachers Manual: “Why is there so much loneliness and unhappiness in this world? Could this be because we disobey God, we fail his tests, we think too much is […]
[…] this breech of Senate decorum but took no action as the spectators rapidly cleared the chamber bearing news of the bill’s passage (CR, 1217). The Edmunds Bill first appeared before the House of Representatives […]
[…] exhausted, often frustrated, but she never once wondered if it was worth it. Of course maybe the world just seemed more hopeful then. Last year an old boyfriend, Mark, who had just turned thirty-five, […]
[…] director at West Virginia University. Grant Ivins, who taught animal husbandry, became price administrator for Utah during World War II. For a period of twenty-one years Lowry Nelson was professor of sociology at the […]
[…] about it, I realize that this is what Utah is all about. It’s all about the hidden world—the secret life behind things. I haven’t led a life of crime, but there have been omissions—lots […]
[…] a -person. At first, it was odd, and there was an ominous feeling that we were all breaking some sacred code. But after I got used to it, my name rounded clean and whole […]
[…] life. For example, the surgeon’s knife morphs throughout Joseph’s life into the sword of Laban. The inner world of the Joseph that Morain describes is dark and driven, with the one traumatic childhood event […]