Mormons have been involved in films ever since Hollywood became a magic word. Church members first tried to influence the Hollywood establishment, then went on to create their own film industries; finally, today a corps […]
[…] fast action of the rodeo circuit which is the milieu of his protagonist Jesse Gifford. A down -and–outer since a trouncing under the hooves of the bronc that had thrown him, Jesse, his back […]
It will come as news to all Latter -day Saints that after many years of deep scholarly research the Hill Cumorah has finally been located—at the north end of Bird Island in Utah Lake. […]
[…] the canyon side of the gate and solemly swears “never past the gate” until fall. For ten -year–old Katie Barton this summer begins like all the others. She rediscovers old haunts, discovers new ones, […]
[…] canals, and railroad spurs, etc.) , the political and financial difficulties causing years of setbacks, the architectural design of the exterior and interior, the symbolic exterior stones (earth, moon, sun, cloud, stars, Saturn, big […]
[…] God: “Murray, the trouble with you is you think you’re God, and everybody has to audition for human being.” It’s a superficial comedy, but Herb Gardner’s witty lines often convey some fragment of philosophic […]
[…] implied church sanction of advertisers. At any rate, church sources say the magazines are now largely self -sustaining. And at 50 cents or less an issue, they are among the least expensive periodicals sold. […]
[…] Day Adventism except for Mrs. White’s persistent insistence that her religious and health ideas were independent of human influence. For Mormons, particularly Mormon historians, the book is not only interesting but a rich source […]
[…] to the wider community, but the rationale for those practices and that migration, the uniquely Mormon, nutsand -bolts doctrines such as endowments, eternal progression, prospective Godhood, and so forth, have never engaged the popular […]
[…] example, Theodore M. Burton, “The Inspiration of a Family Record,” Ensign, January, 1977, pp. 13–14. Roy Pascal, Design and Truth in Autobiography (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960), p. 181. Stephen A. Shapiro “The […]