[…] as a teamster for Parley P. Pratt when Nauvoo was abandoned in February 1846. Essentially, he’d crossed the ice with a load of Brother Pratt’s wives. The story of George Whitaker is well known. […]
Did you know everything all happened in one split microsecond after a cosmic pea exploded in a perfect vacuum? I will avoid the observation that all things we can observe therefore come from split
Craig Harline’s mission memoir, Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled but Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary, is a hilarious, heart-of-gold account of the highs and […]
Valerie Hudson headlines the 16th Dialogue podcast in her stop at the Miller Eccles group. There she discusses her new book Sex and World Peace
In April, the Miller Eccles group welcomed Dr. David Stewart and Matthew Martinich, authors of a new Church almanac that provides an in-depth look at membership, retention, activity and much more, to speak about the […]
[…] aspects of biblical scholarship in this new Miller-Eccles presentation. As Morris Thurston explains “This timely presentation will be a great way to kick off the year of Old Testament study in your Gospel Doctrine class.”
[…] lived in Cottonwood.” And it is really possible to sing too, because Thomas Cheney of the BYU English Department, besides preparing notes on each song’s background, has also provided us with the words. The […]
Bowed in the sacred ark on knees Of ophiolatry I have burned a virgin candle To the desert flatness of my forehead and in curious Attrition bent, arms stretched With spread palms down, leaving […]
[…] working on a Mormon theme could avoid the Y and still claim to have made a thorough search of the records. But that it is being done is very evident. So that it will […]
[…] churches that were built between 1861 and 1905. A truly representative selection obviously would include a thorough search of the archives for pictures of buildings that have been razed. However, I have not been […]