Waiting for Lightning
April 26, 2018Again I am the child hunched into a tense ball in bed on Christmas morning, breathless with frogs trampolining my stomach, for the house to wake, the curtained French doors […]
Again I am the child hunched into a tense ball in bed on Christmas morning, breathless with frogs trampolining my stomach, for the house to wake, the curtained French doors […]
[…] I trust that no one of my family will ever seek and appreciate the treasures of this world above the treasures that come from an honorable and God-fearing life devoted to religious duties and […]
From Quaker to Latter-day Saint is an unfortunate title. Neither interesting nor particularly descriptive, it combines with the design and size of the volume to suggest one of those wearying biographies of a minor […]
Communication is a matter of infinite hope. It is the emotion we feel when we send these fragile words however tentatively or forcefully out to others. Even those who write secret diaries, shrouded in […]
For several decades Bingham, Utah was a turbulent mining town. Built on the edge of the “greatest hole on earth,” its inhabitants slaved for gold and then for copper. One day Bingham disappeared, consumed […]
[…] fruits, and toys and dolls comprise this abundantly illustrated volume. Combining some historical lore with instructions from the past as well as current applications, the book would be useful for leaders of girls in […]
In an attractive volume with numerous illustrations, tables, and charts, A. J. Simmonds has told the story of those Cache Valley Latter-day Saints who for various economic, social or political reasons were excommunicated from […]
[…] at age seventy-five after a short, losing battle with cancer. In his death, his wife, six sons, and thirty-two grandchildren lost a gentle, loving husband and father, and the Church a great historian and teacher.
T. Edgar Lyon, well known to a generation of students at the University of Utah Institute of Religion, died on September 20, 1978, at the age of 75. Born and reared in Salt Lake […]
[…] and brought much persecution against the church her husband founded under the direction of heaven. As I search the pages of history I find few women who were asked to go through as much […]