[…] write a tribute to Fawn McKay Brodie. Professor Brodie was no doubt the most widely known and read of all Mormon writers, a historian of distinction whose work over a period of thirty five […]
[…] to go contrary to the advice given. . . . “ President Joseph F. Smith did not share his counselor’s lack of persuasion in this matter and Lund’s failure to affirm that the Word […]
[…] the original hieratic text, hieroglyphic transcription, both right to left and then, for the convenience of the English reader, from left to right, followed by a phonetic transcription and word by word translation. To […]
[…] be, And by the Lord, for the world is such You can’t just walk straight through, not breaking One commandment or another, They said, and as they told their tales, It was justified by […]
[…] of twelve years to fifteen I pondered many things in my heart concerning the situation of the world of mankind the contentions and divisions the wickedness and abomina tions . . . my mind […]
[…] the circle of home, neighbors, and ward rather than reaching out to the wider community or the world. But one decade was different, infused by an unusual degree of organized activism against poverty and […]
[…] less valuable. That uncertainty is no reason to waste life in shallow, meaningless living. I remember an English poet’s reaction to the bombing of his native London in World War II. He reported that […]
[…] it is because we have learned to understand jive or if they considerately speak to us in English. The only problem is, our neighbors are too busy to listen to the gospel. One woman […]
[…] (Oct. 1958) : 644-48; Jan Thompson, “Prepare for Life, Not Just Marriage” (interview with Susan Memmot), Church News, 18 July 1981, p. 7. Samuel W. Richards, “The Duty of Marriage,” The Contributor 13 (1892): […]
[…] That’s how I felt about The Chevrolet. Not because I had always believed. When I had first read Gene’s essay about blessing the car, I had said to my wife, Marcia, “Too bad it […]