[…] from the moment when, as an immigrant lad from Switzerland, I accompanied my father, who later became almost nationally famous as “the Salt Lake Tabernacle pin dropper and prayer whisperer,” to hear “Mormonism’s greatest […]
I brought my d aughters to your grave There in the river’s bend Not far from where, their age, I watched you dedicate the monument To Jim Bridger: trapper, river-searcher. You lay deep in […]
Over a year ago this column called attention to three new journals which in one way or another would be of interest to Mormons or bibliophiles of Mormonism. The journals noted were Mormon History, […]
[…] recreational area. Baptisms of growing children may take place on an outing to a resort or the beach. Families who have left an active, extended family behind “back in the States” often replace distant […]
Mormons might find p articular interest in the recent defeat by the California legislature of a bill that would have repealed all laws against sexual relationships by consenting adults. Only an impassioned stand by […]
[…] They had no hope for marriage or children; they would never be free to relax on a beach or in some beautiful canyon, or travel, or enjoy all the simple pleasures life has to […]
Th at night I was sustained as bishop many students came to offer their congratulations. One couple added, “Bishop, we’re engaged!” I had not yet learned to catch that hint which actually meant, “Keep […]
[…] invincible ignorance and insensitivity of some young missionaries just off an Idaho farm or Salt Lake’s East Beach (I qualified on both counts) trying to relate to an alien culture, the smugness and self-righteousness […]
My gr andfather, for whom I was named, was born in 1878 in a four-room stone house built by his father in Round Valley, near Morgan, Utah. My great grandfather had a small farm […]