[…] ways of looking at Mormon theology. First, he describes what I call traditional Mormon theology, which emphasizes the themes that Joseph Smith articulated toward the end of his life and that Brigham Young, Parley P. […]
[…] MacMurray imagines how it would be for his seventeen-year-old daughter Heidi to have been born a third world child. How would she function in the Church — or in the world even? Would she […]
[…] promise of contemporary Mormon women more realistically than she. Underlying these stories is a sense of the world’s irremediable ills. In many of them, it is Sillitoe’s express purpose to uncover those ills. The […]
A clergyman visiting Salt Lake City was invited to the Tabernacle where Heber C. Kimball addressed the congregation. The minister was so disturbed by Kimball’s impish and impious ways that had his own family […]
I first encountered Reed Smoot more than two decades ago while researching the life and political career of Parley P. Christensen, a Utah political maverick who became the Farmer-Labor party nominee for president in […]
[…] the presence of two card-carrying Gentiles—Donald Worster and Richard Etulain—whose fresh perspectives are sorely needed in the insular world of Mormon scholarship. Like most collaborative projects, the essays vary considerably. Many contain personal reminiscences of […]
At least the kids were gone, settled among family for the next ten or twelve hours. That gave him some time to pull himself together, to sort things out before tomorrow, before the rest […]
[…] (28-29), but rather polygyny is a practiced form of marriage in the majority of cultures around the world and is conducive both to stability in the social order and democracy. In other words, polygyny […]
[…] of local and national government leaders, the army, and LDS church leaders. These factors prevented a reasonable search for a path to peace and reconciliation. The author does not oversimplify any of these situations […]
My introduction to Frank C. Robertson was at the age of eleven when someone gave me a copy of one of his juvenile westerns called The Young Nighthawk. Years later I discovered that Robertson […]