Excavating Myself
April 25, 2018[…] an excellent judge of horseflesh. But when Chui-fang Kao returned from his first buying trip with the news that he had bought a dun-colored mare, and the horse turned out to be a coal-black […]
[…] an excellent judge of horseflesh. But when Chui-fang Kao returned from his first buying trip with the news that he had bought a dun-colored mare, and the horse turned out to be a coal-black […]
At the second annual meeting of the Association for Mormon Letters, as at the first, two literary concerns seemed to have emerged. Not so surprisingly, at the bottom of both these issues was the question…
Though set in Salt Lake City, Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald is not a “Mormon novel”, even in the way that Scowcroft’s The Ordeal of Dudley Dean is—which does not mean it will not interest Mormons.…
This talk is necessarily going to be “oral history.” As such it is suspect, as most oral history must be. Time plays tricks on our memories. It beclouds our judgment, confuses people, bends our interpretations,…
[…] on, now firmly committed to publication, but still part-time. Andrew was working on his master’s degree in English at BYU, and I had my hands full teaching law. Finally in 1977, Andrew and I […]
[…] led them from the pole corral. The merest gleam of sun had struck the far western peaks, breaking the blue of dawn into rose on great rocks and cliffs and slopes of brush and […]
Robert Hinckley is clearly one of Utah’s most distinguished sons. In a career spanning over a half century, both in Utah and on the national level, he has worn a number of different hats—politician, government…
[…] An allusion to blood atonement was also contained in a Februrary 26, 1972 editorial in the Church News: Biblical principles are sound, and are as applicable today as they were in ancient times. One […]
[…] who received their secondary educations in Catholic and Protestant schools are now Africanizing their given biblical and English names. Students who came to the campus as Paul, Robert or John are officially taking African […]
[…] book accomplishes many things. Of considerable interest and value is his compilation of the history of the international expansion of the Church and the statistics documenting these developments. Also of great value is his […]