A Reading Group
April 18, 2018[…] the phone, locked it against my ear with my shoulder, and continued to read the already stale news. “Hello,” I said. It was Evan Francis, first counselor in our ward bishopric. “How are you?” […]
[…] the phone, locked it against my ear with my shoulder, and continued to read the already stale news. “Hello,” I said. It was Evan Francis, first counselor in our ward bishopric. “How are you?” […]
[…] history and doctrine at Brigham Young University, has written a history of Mormon ism in Ohio in the 1830s. He appears to have consulted virtually all of the primary sources pertinent to his subject. […]
Search for Sanctuary received the 1985 Francis M. Chipman Award from the Mormon History Association. A historical narrative, it describes a little-known aspect of the 1857-58 Utah War. Brigham Young sent men out […]
[…] most Americans, including Mormons, through their generation and into part of mine. But something touched my father in his early life and grew constantly in him until he and my mother were moved at […]
[…] is new. He painted a picture of a veritable army reaching into all the corners of the world with the restored gospel of Christ. President Benson said afterward, “President Kimball, in all the years […]
[…] between the needs of the individual and of the community, between civilization and the wilderness, between the world and the Church, between the Saints and God — the struggling im perfect prophet in whom […]
[…] Eve as a scapegoat, not only for the sin in the garden but for many of the world’s ills. Rockwood also identifies the special meaning for Mormon women of the Genesis account as communicated […]
[…] the uniqueness of the Church’s messages or organizations by contrasting the Church or its members with “the world,” though it never singles out other religions, political parties, or specific groups. The talk frequently includes […]
[…] bear “some anti-Communist banners” (p. 130). His defense of science was rather a defense of the honest search for truth, not a judgment that scientists are always open minded. His plea was always for […]
The letters in this collection, ably edited and annotated, are neither literate nor consistently interesting. They lack informed perspective and only occasion ally throw any light on the larger questions of the times […]