[…] from Monte McLaws’ doctoral dissertation, Spokesman for the Kingdom is a terse, well-researched biography of the Deseret News and Mormon journalism from 1830 to 1898. The book is thematically organized around the topics of […]
[…] famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long […]
We Mormons put a lot of stock in the Local Boy Makes Good syndrome: we’re proud of our Osmonds, our Marriotts, our Jack Andersons, and we’re anxious to let people out there know that […]
[…] time, insuring the suitability of church forms and facilitating the uniform procedure of Church programs across the world. Under the building missionary program, standard plans were exploited as an effective tool in the massive […]
[…] art forms, to sell C. C. A. Christensen over all other painters in the history of the world, and to try to badger English professors to teach Orson F. Whitney as one of the […]
[…] appreciate the fine family history gift Dr. Hart has painstakingly produced for them and for the scholarly world. Edward L. Hart, Mormon in Motion: The Life and Journals of James H. Hart 1825-1906 in […]
[…] acquisition of knowledge when he announced, “All the minds and spirits that God ever sent into the world are susceptible of enlargement and improvement. The relationship we have with God places us in a […]
[…] worked. (He doesn’t say which J. W. translation he used but the one I’m aware of, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures [1961], is translated from the “original languages, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.”) He […]
[…] insightful perspective. The authors have not strained to show him as being overreligious or underreligious in his search for the eternal. I was also pleased to meet Brigham Young the carpenter, glazier, and painter. […]
In my journal, I termed it the Sunday Massacre. The disagreement centered on how much money we, the bishopric, could extract in good conscience from our struggling ward members for the stake building fund. […]