In her diary entry for March 20, 1848, Patty Bartlett Sessions (1795–1892) recorded an unusual note: she had begun to work on her sewing sampler, an item she had not touched for thirty-eight […]
At the conclusion of each Mormon History Association’s annual conference, there is a “devotional.” (Until I became a devotee of Mormon history, devotional was always an adjective, as in “devotional literature,” but the Latter-day […]
[…] The author’s suggestion that the Book of Mormon is a religious declaration of independence from the Old World similar to many contemporary declarations of independence such as Emerson’s “American Scholar” intrigues me. While I […]
[…] them. At one point Clark states, rather offhandedly, that it is “hardly mere accident that the western world’s two great ages of drama grew, independently, out of religious ritual.” Indeed they did, but in […]
[…] art school. The dreams for the future grew and grew until some pictured the area becoming a world art center with positive new kinds of art supercede “Pop,” “Op,” “auto-destructive art,” and what-not. Among […]
[…] regeneration of man. A solution of this conflict is possible in our historical era only if the world accepts the gospel, otherwise it must wait until the establishment of the Kingdom of God. Attempts […]
[…] their marital vows “. . . shall be of full force when they are out of the world; and they shall pass by the angels and the gods which are set there, to their […]
[…] the girls need guidance in establishing their values in life. This includes preparing them to meet the world and people in it who have values different from theirs; helping them to know how to […]
[…] his missionary controversies with the Christian sects; of his fight to get into action in the First World War, when he was commissioned a chaplain above the age limit because of his demonstrated physical […]
[…] English, after which she taught these subjects at Snow College for a year. Wanting to see the world, she took a tour of Europe, followed by a month and a half in Greece, two […]