[…] Pratt’s article, “One Hundred Years Hence. 1945,” written in 1845, in which he describes Zion and the world in 1945, “some forty or fifty years” after the cataclysmic events of the last days. Looking […]
[…] ways Kenneth H. Winn’s work is reminiscent of Fawn Brodie’s No Man Knows My History. That path breaking book, like Exiles in a Land of Liberty, provided solid, stimulating history but was marred, in […]
[…] turreted little red-brick castle of Jaegerspris where sympathetic Louise Rasmussen lived—Ane’s refuge, I believe, in a Lutheran world gone grim and cold for her family after 1858. Peder was barred from their parish churchyard […]
[…] conservative batter that seems to have brewed in U.S. domestic and foreign politics since the end of World War II. What can be said by Mormons who live in a country which is part […]
[…] in our society. One quarter of the Australian population has Irish roots, and large numbers of post- World War II immigrants have come from predominantly Catholic countries in the southern Mediterranean and Latin America. […]
[…] for U.S. Mormons only. Mormonism is decidedly sect-like in the international arena. In most countries of the world, Mormonism’s tendency towards the middle class and the well-educated is muted, and the sect-like character of […]
[…] done superbly in the Tales of Alvin Maker series, his reimagining of the Joseph Smith story in a world of science and religion and magic, Card attempts here to penetrate the surface of religious narrative and analyze the […]
It had been the perfect day. We had learned how to write cursive L’s and mine were the best, so Miss Handy hung my paper on the board for the rest of the class […]
[…] Where worlds in time and space lie wide and full? My room is closed and airless while the tide Slaps up the pier and churns me in its pull. And yet old times of […]
[…] quarter century, the Church has experienced tremendous growth in Latin America and elsewhere in the so-called Third World, a relatively sudden surge that has received little scholarly attention (Grover n.d.). In the following essay, […]