[…] under most of the six years I edited this journal. I felt that if we could just get Mormons to talk and listen to one another we would come to a common understanding of […]
Writing a book of short stories/sketches about a group of missionaries in France is picking a hard door to knock on—missionary work is surrounded with ideals, taboos, and nostalgia—but Gladys Clark Farmer makes […]
[…] Mormon past; in them we saw our Mormon makings. And in Mary Bradford’s look at the personal essay among contemporary Latter-day Saints, there we were: Gene England, Becky Cornwall, Ed Geary, Clif Jolley—we listened […]
General History Allen, Edward J. Second United Order Among the Mormons. New York: AMS Press, 1967. $12.50 Reprint of 1936 edition. Bennett, John C. The History of the Saints: Or an Expose of Joe Smith…
[…] experts in the field of pre-Columbian archaeology. Of course, it is clear that Dr. Cheesman is not writing this book for experts in the field, but for the general LDS faithful, who will be […]
[…] mythohistory. This method is a conjunction of opposites attempts to elicit meaning from history by reading and writing it through the double prism of rational thought and of imagination or mythopoiesis. The intent in […]
[…] this standard both of our review books score well. Dora Flack is credited by the publisher with writing Betenson’s story for her. Thoroughness. Are all the essential bases touched? Or are there unforgivable gaps […]
[…] doubt find a net gain in the liveliness and color of the narrative thus offered. The colorful writing style does not obscure the underlying quality of a remarkably comprehensive and reliable survey of almost every […]
[…] ideal of the political Kingdom of God. Although the constitution of the state of Deseret paid lip service to the principle of popular sovereignty, the first legislature was apparently handpicked by the Council of […]
Confirmed scholars are a tenacious lot, and when a combination of learned men pool their genius great things occur. Such is this magnum opus. The product of over a quarter century of labored research, this…