Shocks of Grain
April 22, 2018“Whoa.” Benjamin Vaughn pulled back on the lines and stopped his four horse team. It was midmorning and he had just finished cutting his ten-acre patch of barley. With the binder stopped, Ben grasped […]
“Whoa.” Benjamin Vaughn pulled back on the lines and stopped his four horse team. It was midmorning and he had just finished cutting his ten-acre patch of barley. With the binder stopped, Ben grasped […]
As every author knows, the blurb on the dust cover of a book is of vital importance, because many reviewers read nothing else. I found the blurb of Thy Kingdom Come invaluable after reading […]
[…] deals with a family’s attempt at coping with and adjusting to violence, terror, loss and a subsequent search for identity as individuals and as a family. As the body of Saints has to deal […]
[…] young and unschooled for the most part, achieve the success they do remains an enigma to the world at large and often to Mormons as well. Is it their very inexperience which makes missionaries […]
The subtitle of this book indicates its primary shortcoming. This is, indeed, one more history of the Mormons. The chapter headings could be those of any similar work giving a general overview of […]
[…] not as advocating either acceptance or rejection of Mormon theology but as using it to envision the world and one possible curve that human thought, feeling, and action may trace in the world. To […]
We probe and scrape and peel away the faded Multicolored layers of a lifetime, Like Schliemann (Who ? Grandmother asks)
As Mormonism embarked upon the 1980s, it appeared, at least outwardly, that the Church might be well advised to prepare for a new era of journalistic sensationalism and criticism. To combat this anticipated struggle, […]
In this small room the bishop sits like God Himself broad farmer face upon