[…] life and times of St. Francis, a handy introduction is Mark Galli’s Francis of Assisi and His World (Downers Grove, 111: InterVarsity Press, 2002). [2] One definition says in part: “‘Saints’ are primarily the […]
This article examines John T. Clark, a relatively little-known but influential figure in the rise of fundamentalism among the Latter-day Saints during the early twentieth century. By 1921, small groups of excommunicated polygamists had […]
[…] the uncertainty of agnosticism and the finality of atheism, our sons found it hard to accept a world without religious hope. Our older son, Mark, became cynical and pessimistic after failing to find fulfillment […]
[…] Hegsted and Post-Manifesto Plural Marriage” (Dialogue 26, no. 3 [Fall 1993]: 101–18). In a day when the world press is expounding on the polygamous ancestry of presidential candidate Mitt Romney, I thought Dialogue readers […]
[…] a good story, told well?” What do I look for? A story that draws me into a world that I don’t want to leave. Characters I empathize with, adventures that I want to go […]
[…] In the beginning of his demining career, when the original Ebinger had been his magic staff, the world—particularly the houses closest to the Dog—became an untamed wilderness of treasures: keys buried in planter boxes, […]
On March 13, 1852, two men, one white and armed with a rifle, the other a Goshute armed with bow and arrows, confronted each other in the Stansbury Mountains west of Tooele, a small, […]
Amasa Mason Lyman (pronounced “AM-uh-see,” according to phonetically spelled family documents) made many important contributions to the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Until now, however, the apostle-turned-apostate has remained a peripheral […]
[…] a room stacked full of gold bars.” My father worked for Kennecott that summer. It was the world’s largest open-pit mine. “Was it a big room?” I asked. “Not very,” he said. “Like the […]
[…] snowdrifts cling grimly to tree roots, to shaded ground, and even these are not long for the world. It’s warm for February. The Ranger leads the group into a dry, sunny clearing. He stops, […]