[…] conservative political commentator and Latter-day Saint Glenn Beck praised The Real George Washington (published 1991) on his Fox News show as part of his “Founders’ Fridays” series. Beck labeled the book “the best book […]
As an epigraph to their anthology A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints, Richard Cracroft and Neal Lambert quote Orson F. Whitney’s 1888 Contributor essay, “Home Literature”: We shall yet have Miltons and […]
[…] on to say that “As a writer and as a person, I can honestly say that I am not particularly interested in Mormons. Not particularly. It is by a series of accidents of birth […]
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[…] when she was accompanied by a male pianist. They worked together on the piece for some weeks; and finally, when they performed, the ecstatic release, the sense of the flowing together of their spirits, […]
[…] Smith, God appeared, ordered him to restore his “true” church, and called him as a prophet. The news of Smith’s mystical experience generated animosity against him and he soon became a target of violence. […]
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[…] August 1931 speech, “The Earth and Man,” approved by the First Presidency and reproduced in the Deseret News. In this address Talmage stated that the earth was considerably older than humanity, and that plants […]