Summer 1974
In the Summer 1974 Issue Eugene England reflects on the Watergate scandal's implications for Mormons, while Brent N. Rushforth offers a personal account of his experiences with Watergate. D. Craig Mikkelsen explores the political life of B. H. Roberts, a prominent Mormon leader. In the "From the Pulpit" section, Carlos S. Whiting presents a rational approach to understanding Mormonism. The poetry section features works by Margaret Rampton Münk, Jay Wright, and Linda Sillitoe, touching on biblical figures, missionary life, and ancestral reflections. Eugene England's personal voice reappears with The Hosanna Shout in Washington, D.C., and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich provides insights into counseling within the church. Together, these pieces explore the intersections of faith, politics, and personal experience in the Mormon community. And more.
We Latter-day Saints not only declare that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired but also think of ourselves as standing ready to make a prophesied defense, perhaps even a rescue, of it when it is in particular danger, at some time when it is to “hang by a thread.”
As a lawyer, I have had a professional interest in the unfolding of Watergate. Lawyers have, of course, played a central role in the saga. A staggering number of the key players were lawyers—those who were involved in the criminal activities and cover-up conspiracies as well as those involved in the unravelling of the conspiracies and the prosecution of the guilty.
Among the second generation of latter-day Saints, the Church had few more zealous or versatile advocates than B. H. Roberts. In his day he was the Church’s most prolific writer, its leading historian, one of…
If we accept the value Ms. Arbuthnot places upon books, the Mormon community is indeed rich. The editor of this column never ceases to be amazed by the quantity (and increasingly the quality) of books and periodicals directed at the Mormon audience. Among the new entrants, of which most of Dialogue’s subscribers should have received a sample issue, is Exponent II, published by Mormon Sister, Inc. of Arlington, Massachusetts. Exponent II is “A quarterly newspaper concerning Mormon women, published by Mormon Women, and of interest to Mormon women and others.”
The first time I participated in the “Hosanna Shout” I felt the presence of actual beings from another world joining us in that cry of praise and the following “Hosanna Anthem.” That was in the…
The scent of shaving lotion startled me. It was like finding a “No Trespassing” sign in some familiar patch of woods. I’d walked through that door a hundred times, would teach Sunday School in the…
Who knows what day
they keep as the Sabbath?
You can see them almost any day
come dusty down the middle
Warren Walling (seed of fishers of the sea
who warred to birth a nation of vast vision)
studied thrift, hard labor, common sense,
belief in God and good; grasped the Word
In its almost-square format, in its design and layout, its good-sized type and sepia toned pictures on stiff, just about grocery-bag-brown paper, Miller and Moffitt’s Provo is easily the most attractive and readable work of local history I have come across.
What do we do when we have agreed to participate in an experiment under the auspices of a prestigious university (and are getting paid for it) and we are asked to do something objectionable? The…
Ellen Spencer and Ellen Pratt were born in 1832 and moved to Nauvoo in 1841, where they became close friends. They both crossed the plains in the emigration of 1848 without their fathers. Orson Spencer…
This slim, significant volume is to date the best of the self-help books published for LDS single women. It succeeds largely because of Carol Clark’s unique grasp of gospel principles as they relate to even…
As an exercise in empathy, it would be well for us Mormons to project ourselves into the thoughts and feelings of those who may be quite different from us. For one thing, our missionary program…
