[…] 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
[…] the travel orders from Perpetual Emigration officials to flee the “de cadence and apostasy of the wicked world,” our eyes fixed with theirs on “the distant land of Zion” (p. 261). “For all immigrants,” […]
[…] from orthodoxy, a basic disagreement or a sense of alienation which, after inner turmoil, confrontation with the world, and personal growth, leads to recon ciliation and a return to the fold on one’s own […]
In the last days of summer we walk through tall grass to the river long before the sun spills
Samuel Johnson coined the phrase, and Virginia Woolf gave it its place in the language: the “common reader.” That per son, Doctor Johnson wrote, by whose common sense, “uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all […]