During the 1970s a comprehensive history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in sixteen volumes was contemplated as one of the projects of the Historical Department of the Church, with Leonard J.…
With the possible exception of Louis L’Amour, Wallace Stegner has probably been interviewed more frequently than any other living Western writer. This is an impressive tribute to Stegner’s accessibility to representatives of both scholarly and…
[…] hap pens anywhere. It happens at home; it happens on the job; it happens simply because we’re human beings in an im perfect world, surrounded by other hu man beings (p. 56). She groaned. […]
[…] State of Missouri, leaving you shut up in that lonesome prison. But the reflection is more than human nature ought to bear, and if God does not record our sufferings and avenge our wrongs […]
She was my great-aunt on my father’s side and I hated her. She was fat. I She used two long crochet hooks to tie her shoes. Everybody knew it. Unless, of course, I was around.…
[…] enthusiasm for the chocolates I had brought for him. While my belief in the eternal nature of human beings has kept me from dwelling on the justice of God, his mercy or fairness in […]
The leadership of President Kimball was usually gentle but generated profound ripples for good. His enunciation in 1978 of the revelation granting the priesthood to the blacks may be characterized as a tidal wave. It has…
[…] presbytery of Annan because he had argued in The Doctrine of the Incarnation Opened (1828) that Christ’s human nature was sinful. Ryerson was untroubled by this and uninterested in Irving’s Christology. Instead he was […]
If I could give to you a dew-wrapped day,
You have no need to tell me — I should know
That you would use it all to make things grow.
The furling bud, the fruiting branch are pay
[…] economics in a Washington high school who inspired many young black girls to pursue careers in fashion design and became administrator of home economics programs for the District of Columbia public schools. When I […]