From its early years on the social fringe,” U.S. News & World Report I recently told its readers, the Mormon Church “has become America’s largest and wealthiest home-grown religion by offering shelter in stormy […]
[…] of the Church greatly increasing their already strong positions of excellence till the eyes of all the world be upon us.” In light of this sixteen-year-old vision and challenge, is it not regret table […]
In his History of American Socialisms (1870) John Humphrey Noyes emphasized the equal importance of revivalism and socialism to the communitarian movement. “The Revivalists,” he wrote, had for their great idea the regeneration of […]
[…] back from the dead growth at the sides of the road like an invisible horde keeping pace, breaking into a run when I did and staying precisely even with me. But except for the […]
[…] a decision in later years that would alter dramatically not only the Church, but more importantly the world’s perception of the Church. My last conversation with this beloved man was in the spring of […]
[…] of his life, I wonder if it was the strenuousness of that struggle to live in both worlds that moved him toward his early death. My parents met when they were students at the […]
[…] that the voting process in the Church was originally much more open and thoughtful than it is today. I explained that I was really sustaining him more than most members of the stake because […]
[…] had been only a week since she had slept in her new bed, we had entered a world forever altered. Neighbors dropped by to bring the mail they had collected or just to say […]
[…] one of the best of Mormon memoirs. The first twenty-one chapters of Quicksand and Cactus, “Wide Wonderful World,” cover Brooks’s childhood to age thirteen. They are not expository, nor do they advance by the […]
[…] you find yourself at odds with another, try to step into his shoes, try to see the world from where he stands—even if he refuses to do the same for you. For me, this […]