I first heard the tales of Hugh Nibley, the brilliant and eccentric LDS scholar whose fertile and fecund brain defended and expanded the faith of thoughtful Church members, virtually at my mother’s knee. I […]
[…] there was very little heat. I was not in student houses, which are pretty well organized. During World War II, there was quite a difference between a student house and a student hotel. So […]
[…] load.”[23] Females were called to dedicate leisure time to proselytizing, following a long tradition since the First World War of the homegrown British “lady missionary.”[24] One woman explained how she was caught up in […]
Dialogue 55.3 (Fall 2022): 75-106 As a contribution to the larger project of examining the King James Bible’s influence on The Book of Mormon, this essay focuses on several aspects of the problem of […]
Dust clogged my nose and the strong smell of horses, the clump, clump of their hoofs regular-like and slow, the heavy creak of the wheels, and over and above everything else, like sad heartbeats, […]
[…] which are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s.”[1] But when the demands of Caesar’s world encroach on the spiritual sphere, or when the oracles of God feel obliged to intervene in […]
[…] other states also have numerous high-level corporate executives. The Mormon production of high achievers in the executive world is part of a larger achievement of excellence. Consequently, the first part of this article deals […]
[…] young Alvin Simmons in Wright’s story “Speak Ye Tenderly of Kings,” and to two unsettlingly glamorous “Outside World people” he boasts of his pioneer ancestor who is honored with a “big statue” that “You […]
[…] are my thoughts and meditations, to say what is the use to send missionaries to all the world to convert the world, while we have a tribe of Israel in our midst, which [we] […]
[…] 107) specified that seventies were to “preach the Gospel,” “be especial witnesses unto Gentiles in all the world,” be a “quorum equal in authority to that of the Twelve,” “act under the direction of […]