Kenneth W. Godfrey

Short Notices

Wallace Alan Raynor, The Everlasting Spires: A Story of the Salt Lake Temple

Helen B. Gibbons, Saint and Savage

Christ Without the Church: The Challenge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

On August 24, 1932, Dietrich Bonhoeffer began an address at the International Youth Conference in Glad, Switzerland, with the words, “The Church is Dead.”[1] Today, 1966, Bonhoeffer is dead, yet the church lives. However, a…

One Man’s Utah | Wayne Stout, History of Utah

The writing of history is fraught with difficulties because the historian has no direct access to the past. Through newspapers, diaries, journals, and public documents prior events may be glimpsed as shadows, but even then…

The Coming of the Manifesto

Dialogue 5.3 (Fall 1970): 11–25
Godfrey describes the steps leading to Wilford Woodruff issuing the First Manifesto.

Not Enough Trouble | Ernest H. Taves, Trouble Enough: Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon, and David Persuitte, Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon

At least once a decade, it seems, someone publishes a book about the Latter-day Saints without taking the necessary “trouble” to adequately research the subject. Stanley Hirshon was judged guilty of this offense in 1969…

Balance and Faith | William E. Berrett, The Latter-day Saints: A Contemporary History of the Church of Jesus Christ

Thousands of Latter-day Saints were first introduced to William E. Berrett and the Church’s history when they were assigned in seminary to read his book The Restored Church (1940). Initially written in the late 1930s,…