Parley P. Pratt once defined “union of the sexes” as “mutual comfort and assistance in this world of toil and sorrow.” In our day President Spencer W. Kimball has affirmed that an important function […]
[…] links these to the beginnings of her religious dreams. He cites instances of her losing touch with the world; collapsing on the floor; temporary loss of eyesight, speech and hearing; fainting spells; and being struck […]
[…] set in Salt Lake City, Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald is not a “Mormon novel”, even in the way that Scowcroft’s The Ordeal of Dudley Dean is—which does not mean it will not interest Mormons. […]
[…] of a usable Mormon past. Rather, it accepts these as given and tries to envision a fictive world shaped by but not insisting upon Mormon ethos and mythos. Turn Again Home. By Herbert Harker. […]
[…] shall introduce into public affairs the principles of a primitive Christianity, will change the face of the world.” It is unfortunate that the insights into this aspect of Hinckley’s life are so limited. If […]
[…] Phillips and his manuscript. Betenson shakes the historian’s earth, too. She shares with readers a family secret, breaking a family oath to do it, about Butch’s visit with them long after his supposed South […]
[…] read like case histories. They are presented to make a point rather than to create a believable world. They are trivial in the root sense of that word—crossroads gossip—commonplace, unshaped by the artistic magic […]
[…] No weekends at Tahoe. The sacrifice simple and rinsed. Love before making love. Remember the Third-Party Mediator of this world. Pray often, in your closet. Now go, and be happy. Forever’s a damn long time.”
[…] economic power of the Church and informatively describes present ties with business and civic enterprises. “In the World—Institutional Responses” is a good survey of present structure and programs. The suggestion that as many as […]
On the Tuesday before the 1963 October General Conference, Mr. Stephen Holbrook called on me at the University to tell me that the local NAACP was planning a civil rights demonstration sometime during the […]