One of the happy surprises that makes history so interesting is the fact that Utah ever became Mormon Country, for during the roughly one hundred years before 1847 it had been, if anything, Catholic […]
[…] eyes. But nothing. He was smiling, a bounce in his step, a man at peace with the world. He looked at me as Carr did so long ago from that wooden bench—as if he […]
[…] men like me feel a deep desire to be hands-on fathers who claim responsibility for many of the tasks that previous generations assigned principally to mothers; to not perform these duties for us is […]
[…] “the Book will turn out to be, not a guide to events marking the end of the world — as fundamentalist exegetes have often made it—but a challenge to ancient Rome, with her paganism […]
[…] resolved them by asking ourselves some other questions: What is the role of the Church in a world crisis? What can the Church do in war prevention? Who can provide counsel and guidance on […]
[…] another, Taiwan became my cause, my defense, the raison d’etre for any knowledge I had of the world. And the day before this essay goes to the editor, I receive a letter from Jen […]
Dialogue 5.3 (Fall 1970): 11–25 Godfrey describes the steps leading to Wilford Woodruff issuing the First Manifesto.
[…] boys were all gone—on missions, to school, married, in the military (we had four of them in World War II). Walter had finished college and was teaching. We traded the big house for a […]
[…] they did contain the five books of Moses, which give an account of the creation of the world, and also of Adam and Eve, Who were our first parents; and also a record of […]
Dialogue 10.4 (Winter 1977): 10–45 A great value of these early manuscripts is that for the most part they substantiate the correctness of the present Book of Mormon text—fully 99.9% of the text is […]