When Leo said yesterday, “ The Cambridge church is burning down,” my first words were, “Oh, no. I hope they can at least save the organ,” a modest but serviceable pipe organ—always a treasure […]
So many memories! It would take a book to record them all. I was there from 1976 to 1983 and returned many times, including a three-and-a-half month visit in 1997.
Carrol and Edwin Firmage contributed papers to the fall issue that review Mormon history during the nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries and scriptural precedent, in an attempt to motivate a Mormon audience toward […]
The title of this book may elicit wry smiles. Even casual consideration suggests that heterosexuality is doing just fine on its own, without the need for outside encouragement. The authors’ purpose, of course, […]
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Time held me green and dying, though I sang, And spun me off the whinnied fields and out of praise In his big harvest hands ’til horse and hen and place Were only memory, […]
[…] Morris Brown offers a rich and compelling view of early Mormonism’s sacramental and theological emergence up to the death of Joseph Smith Jr. This book makes many outstanding contributions to discussions of this foundational […]
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