Spring 1982
The Spring 1982 Issue features a variety of articles and essays that delve into significant aspects of Mormon thought and doctrine. Topics include the Adam-God doctrine, the concept of pre-existence in the development of Mormon beliefs, and ongoing discussions stemming from the Roberts/Smith/Talmage affair. Additionally, LDS perspectives on the Holy Bible are explored. The issue also includes artistic contributions from James C. Christensen, personal reflections from Jan Shipps as an "Inside-Outsider" in Zion, and poetry by Dale Bjork and Karl Sandberg. The fiction piece, "The Quilt" by Ann Edwards-Cannon, adds further depth to the collection, along with a commentary on relevant topics by Gary James Bergera.
On April 9, 1852, Brigham Young rose once again to address a session of general conference. He intended to preach several discourses, he said, and as the Deseret News observed the following week, “the Holy Ghost [rested] upon [him] in great power, while he revealed some of the precious things of the kingdom.”
The Mormon belief that the individual spirit of man existed in the presence of God before the creation of the world is unique in modern Christianity. Mormons have rejected the Creator/creature dichotomy of Patristic theology…
Few chapters in twentieth-century Mormon thought are more thought-pro voking than the events following B. H. Roberts’ efforts to publish what he considered his greatest work, that synthesis of science and religion, The Truth, the…
Davis Bitton, writing in 1966, noted that “there is no reliable study of Mormon exegesis. .. . I can think of no single area of exploration which promises to be so fruitful in understanding the…
The quilt had been magnificent once. Passed down through the years like a sacrament between mother and daughter, it had been made by Sarah’s great grandmother and her friends—all of them from Manchester. On long…
Last fall a new publication appeared at Brigham Young University, “an independent student weekly,” The Seventh East Press. Its first stated reason for going into business was that “[t]here is no publication that puts in…
At the invitation of Sunstone, I sat down a couple of years ago to write a book review of Samuel Woolley Taylor’s Rocky Mountain Empire. As did Topsy, that review just grew and grew until…
Where she walked,
Trees were quiet with the leisure of monkeys,
And the dew on the leaves seemed forever.
They were of the old people, two sisters
With their measured tones and gunny sack
Of nickels, dimes, and quarters
To take out and polish when they met,
This fine book is a composite: one-third edited diaries and two-thirds biography. It provides readers, Hart descendants and historians with valuable bits of information about James Hart, LDS missionary work, emigration, St. Louis and Bear…
“What was a nice girl like Florence doing in a Cuban bordello—stone cold dead?” As the question from the cover indicates, this paperback is packaged to sell as a murder mystery, the kind one picks…
A book as personal as Cheryl Baxter’s The Cocoon can’t help but evoke a very personal response. I share with the main characters of the book a career as a teacher, an abiding interest in…
Twelve-year-old Joseph Williams and his family have settled in Clay County, Missouri, following their expulsion by mobs in Jackson County. Robbed of his strength by a brutal beating, Joseph’s father, Matthew Williams, fights an unrelenting…
