[…] to the East Coast, instruction in the American political system and an introduction into the Mormon publishing world satisfy these three ambitions in one two-month gambit? Simple—she packs herself off to Washington D.C. on […]
[…] of Latter-day Saints.” M.A., Brigham Young University, 1975. Williams, John Kent. “A History of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association 1939 to 1974.” M.A., Brigham Young University, 1975. Biography Chambless, Timothy Mark. “Columnist Jack […]
[…] though not in the book, Kenobi feels a disturbance in the Force that informs him that a world has been destroyed. Sir Alec Guinness avers he is not satisfied with the way he played […]
[…] can be traced as far back as Arrington’s Great Basin Kingdom. That tradition is in the ascendancy today because of careful work by other scholars as well, including Dwight Israelsen of BYU, who has […]
[…] read like case histories. They are presented to make a point rather than to create a believable world. They are trivial in the root sense of that word—crossroads gossip—commonplace, unshaped by the artistic magic […]
[…] the fact that Valley Tan and the Salt Lake Tribune appear in Part Two while the Deseret News is not introduced until Part Three. Both The Story of the Latter-day Saints and The Mormon […]
Exegetes as willing and capable as Orson Pratt to combine empirical and theological insights have all but disappeared from the Mormon scene. His successors have retained the enthusiastic optimism of early Mormonism, but they […]
Who made the world, my child? Father made the rain silver and forever. Mother’s hand drew riverbeds and hollowed seas, drew riverbeds and hollowed seas to bring the rain home.
[…] of ocean threatening the island become the tides of time and change, threatening to inundate her human world. “—all our certainties have come to grief as we behold the thundering turmoil of white water […]
[…] is a man.” and ends with a powerful prayer: “This is a man/praying:/Bless this broken and beloved world./Keep the mountains up/and the deserts down/and the river in its sides. Keep/our brothers passionate/and our women […]