[…] of Mormons, Vardis Fisher, to give our literature the essentials Twain missed. Rereading Children of God, I am newly impressed with its force and timeliness, with the justness of Fisher’s subtitle “An American Epic.” […]
[…] your fingernails with the point of a sharp hunting knife. “Oh, we’ll get Troy a nice buck today or next Saturday, don’t worry about that,” Doc said. Doc and Bliss had taken the bridles […]
[…] Association. The group was thus not affiliated with any religious body when the missionaries arrived with the news of the Book of Mormon. Rigdon sought evidence which would substantiate Pratt’s claim that the Book […]
[…] They were often horrendous affairs which scared me for years. I don’t recall those characters so stylish today—Laurel and Hardy, W. C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin – but if Louis Hayward, Robert Donat, and Tyrone […]
[…] a message behind the turmoil and the unrest among the young people of today’s world (and I am sure there is), perhaps this is it: care more about people; care less about things and […]
[…] for what was best. And now, the morning of September 26, 1876, my husband, scanning the morning news, suddenly read aloud, “Tomorrow morning Utah students take the train for eastern colleges along with missionaries […]
[…] were around. In fact, my experiences have provoked laughter from some of my friends; they think I am slightly “teched.” Maybe I am. I kept my ironing board set up in the living room […]
This poignant observation by Dale L. Morgan was written even before World War II, and the erstwhile Utah sons and daughters spoken of are themselves now grandparents. Moreover, it is doubtful that anyone any […]
[…] to analyze rather thoughtfully the content of their message and not be swayed by emotional bias. I am sure that anyone who fancies himself a rationalist—that is, an intellectual —would have to take a […]
<i>Dialogue 9.3 (1974): 21–37</i><br> Duane Jeffrey is to be thanked for his article, “Seers, Savants and Evolution: The Uncomfortable Interface.” It is an excellent summary of the history of thought on evolution in the […]