[…] 1974), 34-35, 53-56. Trennert, Robert A., Jr. “The Mormons and the Office of Indian Affairs: The Conflict Over Winter Quarters, 1846-1.848,” Nebraska History, 53 (Fall 1972), 381-400. Tullis, LaMond. “Politics and Society: Anglo-American Mormons in […]
[…] writers do.) That representative sampling of stylistic flaws would of course be matched, perhaps multiplied many times over, in most local histories; and the flaws, numerous as they are, don’t keep Provo: A Story […]
[…] Yet he was guilty of a common fallacy—reading the priesthood as a sexual metaphor. Women who agonize over their status in the eternities suffer from the same error. Perhaps a male monopoly of ecclesiastical […]
[…] Church political influence. Yet despite its formal abdication of authority in politics, the Church retained considerable sway over a people accustomed to looking to its religious leaders for guidance in all things—and Mormon leaders […]
[…] (1845-1921) AND AMANDA (1851-1932). Papers, 1856-1944. 2.5 in. Additions to the papers of the founder of Raymond, Canada, and President of Knight Investment Co. industries, and his wife. Includes correspondence, literary manuscripts, certificates, biographies, […]
[…] not overrate his intellect, and on the other, in affairs of religion spiritual empiricism must take precedence over scientific empiricism. I remember as a college student, being in the first heady stages of encountering […]
<i>Dialogue 9. 3 (1974): 21–37</i><br> Duane Jeffrey is to be thanked for his article, “Seers, Savants and Evolution: The Uncomfortable Interface.” It is an excellent summary of the history of thought on evolution in […]
Just over ten years ago I was approached by four young Mormons who were affiliated with Stanford University in one capacity or another. They wanted to know if there was a library market for […]
My grandfather, for whom I was named, was born in 1878 in a four-room stone house built by his father in Round Valley, near Morgan, Utah. My great grandfather had a small farm there […]
[…] the most objectionable characteristics found in a great deal of so-called “sacred” music is sentimentality. The mawkish, over-ripe harmonies frequently en countered in music dealing with worship belie the sturdy, vigorous, straight forward honesty […]