Advice to Book Reviewers
April 25, 2018[…] “Pray, take it away. It has no personality.” I cannot imagine how the finest cook in the world could endow tapioca pudding with personality. But I do know how a scholar can endow a […]
[…] “Pray, take it away. It has no personality.” I cannot imagine how the finest cook in the world could endow tapioca pudding with personality. But I do know how a scholar can endow a […]
My earliest memory of Retty Mott is of hurry ing past her house as I walked home from Primary. I hurried past because my cousins had told me that she chased people. Once she […]
[…] Smith as Scientist: A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy, (Salt Lake City: The General Board of Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association, 1920) p. 24. Improvement Era, 5:624 (June 1902). Lee Smith, “Herbal Remedies: God’s Medicine,” […]
[…] Where does it come from? From the parts of us that seem unacceptable in the orderly, adult world. Rampant impulses of sexuality, aggression and messiness must be tamed and suppressed. Feelings that arise in […]
[…] and remote period of antiquity. Neusner states, “The Jew has been taught to engage realistically in the world’s tasks, to do so with a whole heart, yet without the need or even the power, […]
[…] in a state of “‘permanent revolution’ or metanoia which does not come to an end in this world, this life, or this time,” then a member of the Mormon Church is guaranteed that right—or […]
[…] legislature and with Elder Grant, Presiding Bishop Charles W. Nibley and others who favored Prohibition. The Deseret News published articles and interviews favoring Prohibition. President Joseph F. Smith, Reed Smoot and others more sensitive […]
[…] joys and duties of home, family and Church, with the not-to-be-denied yearnings for wider scope in the world at large. Bushman has told us how Harriet Robinson did it in the nineteenth century. Let […]
[…] seemed fairly reasonable. The same applied to Sunstone. One of my personal disappointments was the lack of mutual respect and a willingness to discuss. Never were our critics willing to sit down and talk […]
[…] Not because The Chevrolet is gone, but because it probably is not. This much is known. Dur ing the Christmas season of 1973, Gene and Charlotte England traveled to Salt Lake City from Northfield, […]