During his twenty years from 1951 to 1971 as seventh president of BYU, Ernest L. Wilkinson molded the lackluster Provo school into a showplace of LDS educational values. “More than any other single cause,” […]
[…] night. He had extolled their wit, their sense of humor: “Dirt poor in the things of the world, but wonderful people! Humble! Spiritual! God’s children all!” “An inspired call!” he had declared, re-reading the […]
[…] the word precedes that of any other literary redemptive mission: “If cannot do justice to the visible world and make of it fictions which are believable, cannot be trusted to bear witness to the […]
[…] late 1920s who came of age during the Great Depression and endured the anxieties and sacrifices of World War II. Like my mother, moreover, Fawn was a caring, empathic individual who considered the welfare […]
[…] 37.1 (Spring 2004): 75–94</i><br>However, Mennonites and Latter Day Saints may be spiritual cousins. A sympathetic comparison of the origins of both movements may illuminate their past and also assist in contemporary living of the […]
[…] minutes but her phone has fallen silent. Other than the shirring of the trees overhead, the whole world is still. Jennifer stands, brushes off her backside, arranges her pack over both shoulders, and starts […]
[…] had they were vibrating in an exultant state such that neither could quite focus on the physical world, which was demanding that I keep my steps to the center of the median and keep […]
[…] government of the State of Utah. Joe Hill was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, an indigenous radical labor organization which gained notoriety, roughly in the period from 1905 into the […]
<i>Dialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 82–85</i><br>Secular scholarship and L.D.S. studies of archaeology and the Book of Mormon have had a discordant dialogue for some time. The scripture asserts, for example, that the civilizations it describes […]
[…] of my Mormon heritage, but this does not preclude my questioning within my cultural upbringing about the world, or worlds, in which I live. I wish that I could accept the basic premises advanced […]