[…] Rather Jr., Dean of Instruction at SOWELA Technical Community College, shares insights from his extensive background in English and Creative Writing. With a Ph.D. from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and multiple teaching […]
[…] lifestyles exist. What, then, produces the frequently expressed feeling that as Mormons we are part of a world-wide family whose members be long wherever they might be? Does that comfortable sense of belonging arise […]
[…] backwards. An assembly of teenagers and I then listened to them repeatedly and could discern nothing except English recorded backwards, including the reverse of “another” sounding with some imagination like the last two syllables […]
[…] purpose of the conference was to help bridge the distance between the two faiths in the present world. Mormons and Muslims is a compilation of papers given by seventeen participants including Spencer J. Palmer, […]
[…] rather than the conservative tradition bound rural areas. The second part of Meek’s book focuses on the world of the Christian congregations. These assemblies of believers were organized around the household and existed both […]
[…] the long and short of pioneer court ship. In fact, the book abounds with local color. We share in the “home evening” of Anna Gaarden Widtsoe in Norway, complete with singing, scripture reading, poe […]
[…] and child. Mrs. Cowdy was captured and the others were killed. On 1 October 1856, the Deseret News reported that “Margaretts and Cowdy were on their way back to England by their own counsel,” […]
[…] to keep my Mormon roots alive by inviting me to continue to rethink my Mormon background and share the results with others. The first was Maureen Ursenbach Beecher who got me so involved in […]
[…] I would restate the title of our panel and instead of saying “Go Ye Into All the World: To Convert or To Serve?” I would say “Go Ye Into All the World: To Serve […]
[…] (Journal History, 5 Sept. 1848, 4). At the 1862 general conference, participants clapped their hands together (Deseret News, 15 Oct. 1862). Beginning in 1892, with the capstone laying at the Salt Lake Temple, participants […]