[…] reasons are several and compelling. In the first place, author Wayne C. Booth, surely one of the most significant critics now writing in English and perhaps in any language, unashamedly traces his roots to Mormonism.
[…] shows how the top-heavy hierarchy within the tiny order places marginal people on top in their own world. And he also shows how Glendenning’s insecure environment led him to see his dreams and fantasies […]
[…] and on this night shall the sign be given, and on the morrow come I into the world” (3 Ne. 1:13). In a subconscious way I had taken this touching passage as scriptural support […]
[…] Fez airport. Their country, however, seemed somewhat less enchanted. Elder Packard and I had served in the world–in-general mission for seven months—Provo to Chicago to Budapest to Frankfurt—until we finally received legal permission to […]
[…] breadth of his life from the late 1850s as a neglected child in Dickensian England to post- World War I Utah as a respected, outspoken official of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day […]
[…] his children by his second wife, Cecilia Dibble. I remember Roberts visiting my grandparents during the First World War, dressed in his chaplain’s uniform. I was probably four or five years old. And I […]
[…] to help people know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of the world.” She wrote it originally for her three daughters, but it would help anybody who is just […]
[…] focus. He is undoubtedly right in observing that polygamy, more than anything else, was what outraged the “Christian world” against the Mormons. He fails to point out, however, that President Bucha nan’s decision to send […]
I remember well the first time I met Wallace Stegner because I wanted so much to prove him wrong.
[…] that incorporates modern biblical scholarship in the vernacular. And as modern versions gain the ascendancy throughout the world, Mormonism may be forced to accept modern English versions as well. Then, Barlow asks, “will not […]