Summer 1980
The Summer 1980 Issue delves into significant historical, cultural, and personal themes within Mormonism. Gary James Bergera examines the theological and personal conflicts between Orson Pratt and Brigham Young from 1853 to 1868, including an unrevised confessional speech by Pratt from 1860. An interview with Carlfred Broderick explores a gospel-centered approach to therapy, while Jerald R. Izatt and Dean R. Louder analyze Mormon life on the early American frontier. The issue features fiction by Joseph Peterson, poetry by Sterling Harris and Edward L. Hart, and a pulpit address by Robert R. King on the Mormon trek’s lasting importance. Personal reflections by Adele Brannon McCollum and Dian Saderup touch on spiritual journeys and family heritage, and Marlene Payne examines the intersection of obsessive-compulsive traits with Mormon culture, along with insights from B.H. Roberts on the balance of intellect and spirituality.
Brigham Young and Orson Pratt are both regarded as valiant leaders during the first generation of the restored Church. Both worked mightily in the missionary field and showed themselves stalwart defenders of the faith. Yet…
A concept called the “center periphery dichotomy” is sometimes used by social scientists to illustrate and analyze regional disparities.[1] Center or core usually refers to those areas so richly endowed in population and resources that…
High school boys with big dreams, I was one of them; I longed for freedom, for a Ford Mustang with meats and headers and dual glass-packs. And then too, I suppose I was tired. John…
In Guatemala I saw Indians sitting by the side of the road dangling their feet over a cliff as they stared across the valley to the mountains beyond. The guide told me they often sat…
For some years I have been working on Jungian interpretations of history, not in order to lay claim to any special insight into historical events, but as a way of enriching our experience of the…
On fast Sundays in my home ward we have what’s called a “family presentation” during the opening exercises of Sunday School. Usually, the bishop chooses a couple with relatively young children to present a program…
What is it that a father finds in one
to favor over others?
Did Isaac know what grace was his
in primogeniture
while Ishmael wandered?
Wait till the wind blows toward Utah, said the General:
Too many Californians with too
much sense to let us
Drop it on them.
How come? asked the AEC man.
This recent publication is the best one volume history of Utah available, but it is not as good as it could or should be. The ideal volume would present a clear narrative, be integrated by…
During the early part of the twentieth century, Lorin C. Woolley of Centerville, Utah, produced affidavits in which he maintained that on 26 and 27 September 1886, Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith appeared to President…
It is an unusual talent that can write a collection of short stories, transform them into the script of a musical, compose and direct the music (songs and lyrics), and play the accordion, organ, and…
Following the phenomenal success of his book-turned-TV mini-series, Alex Haley described his work Roots as “faction,” a careful combination of history and fiction. Using what names, dates and places he could find in the records as a skeleton, he proceeded…
In all of Mormondom, only a handful of organs really deserve the name. The overwhelming and depressing majority of our instruments are electronic imitations (appliances, a friend of mine calls them) or cheap pipe organs…
When the bishop asked me to speak, I was pleased to accept this opportunity to think about the contemporary relevance of our pioneer heritage. After telling him that I would speak, however, I had doubts…
