[…] then on I am continually aware that she leaves more unsaid. It is apparent that McCloud’s re search is superficial and incomplete, sometimes causing her to make false assumptions. For example, Ellis returns to […]
[…] expected to sell well in Salt Lake City. But Bob Gottlieb and Peter Wiley, both outsiders to the LDS Church and to Utah, have written a book of profound interest to Mormon readers. Over […]
David Riesman, in his landmark study of American higher education entitled The Academic Revolution (1969), was fascinated by BYU and insightfully observes: “Despite academic upgrading, Brigham Young has not lost its sectarian character nor […]
Come, my child, hark to the tale The poets weave for our world: Hear the prophets sing the song Of earth rolling on her wings—
[…] When my daughters turn nineteen and join Relief Society, the message will be very different from the world view in Young Women. In Learn of Me, anonymous authors tell them that homemaking provides “ample […]
The only major LDS science-fiction writer, Orson Scott Card recently won the Nebula Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America for Ender’s Game (1985) and nominations for the Hugo Award. Speaker for […]
[…] memorable and significant passage, finding in the absence of their symbolic armor an opportunity to engage the world directly in a way she has not done before. Megan never leaves her church, but she […]
In the May 1986 Mormon History Association meetings, a panel of historians and archivists explored the impact of the Mark Hofmann documents on the LDS and RLDS churches and views of their common origin. […]
[…] All documents are transcribed as written, faithful to the original spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. Jessee offers an English translation alongside item eight, the one document written in German. Admirable annotation provides additional background information, […]
He hung me next to the load of dripping clothes. I was just a child! Couldn’t walk! Couldn’t talk! Too frozen stiff to cry! But strong enough to clench my monkey fists around the […]