[…] reign of Queen Elizabeth the legend gained wide acceptance, because it justified British claims to the new world. Early explorers claimed that some natives spoke a language that sounded like Welsh—evidence that they were […]
[…] one of the best of Mormon memoirs. The first twenty-one chapters of Quicksand and Cactus, “Wide Wonderful World,” cover Brooks’s childhood to age thirteen. They are not expository, nor do they advance by the […]
[…] of her, telling Maggie Smith/Margaret Masters/Rosie stories, remember ing the many names with which she faced the world and the singular love that was her face to us. I told about the first time […]
[…] could relieve the poor and hungry of the South, let alone the whole country or the Third World. I began to see that giving one of my consecrated mission dollars to every unfortunate person […]
Dialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 85–97 Chronicling the history of baptizing for the dead during the Nauvoo Period, this article introduces the practice from the first baptizers to how it was altered after Joseph Smith’s death.
[…] like these made me cynical about anyone who wore a suit and tie and represented the business world. By the time I was eighteen, I often talked with my friends about the evils of […]
[…] or a farm, Horses cattle &c. Their whole soul,” Young opined, “is in the work of the world not the building of the kingdom of God.” In commenting on this tendency, Young warned: “Any […]
[…] it over my head, and crouch down over my duffel bag, praying for the end of the world or sunrise, whichever comes first. Forty-five minutes later she is back: the angel in the blue […]
Dialogue 26.3 (Summer 1995):163–180 FOR TRADITION-MINDED MEMBERS of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints the Book of Mormon’s historicity is a given: Book of Mormon events actually occurred and its ancient participants […]
I step outside my New York City apartment, and my eyes become observant, sharp, peeled to anything that moves. I am watching for signs of the Second Coming.