[…] on that president of the church. D. Michael Quinn’s trail breaking works on post-Manifesto polygamy and magic world views in Joseph Smith’s day are slighted; he does not appear as an author on any […]
[…] identified a century ago by a British general. This situation makes the publication of Jesus and His World a remark able and exceedingly useful tool both for those casually interested in the New Testament […]
[…] were also different from what they knew. The bishop of the Hyde Park Ward was a loving English brother from the Midlands; his lovely wife was black, originally from the West Indies. If some […]
[…] beginning to assume the mantle of an intellectual. I was changing in the way I viewed the world. In the summer of 1969, while working on a Master’s degree at the University of Utah, […]
[…] if not earlier. Nearly any history of Islam describes this; see, for example, Marshall G. S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974), I: 242-43.
[…] to the honeybee (46, 114) or that sociologist Rodney Stark thinks Mormonism is the most important new world religion to arise since Islam (xvi-xvii, 217, 262, 375). As a result, readers may find the […]
It will come as news to all Latter-day Saints that after many years of deep scholarly research the Hill Cumorah has finally been located—at the north end of Bird Island in Utah Lake. Those […]
[…] fast-food barbecue near Oxford, Mississippi. I was driving from New Orleans to Lamoni with two colleagues on the Lam oni School Board, returning from a national convention. We were driving straight through the night, […]
“Have you heard the really bad news?” my editor, Doc, asked almost off handedly as he wound the film in his camera. Then came that pause.
One Side by Himself is well written and shows careful research and documentation. The author, a descendant of Lewis Barney, emphasizes that his subject was a run-of-the-mill Mormon; in fact, he says, “Lewis Barney […]