Bird Island
April 25, 2018It 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. Those […]
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. Those […]
The following excerpts, from the Preface and Chapter 1 of the first edition, are also found in almost identical form in the commended 1910 edition.
[…] dead in Hollywood. The phenomenal success of The Sound of Music means that nuns are in again, and two current movies give us a choice, according to side-by-side newspaper ads, of Rosalind Russell on […]
[…] the remains of an arcane astronomical technical language of ancient high culture and civilization. They trace similar stories and recurrent themes, many of them influential in later literature, in the ancient writings and traditions […]
[…] the authors have succumbed to the temptation to distort not only Mormon ecclesiastical attitudes but also the lives of their subjects themselves. Burdened with the hallucinatory effects of “biographer’s disease,” they have envisioned new […]
[…] doctrinal or historical position.” A few decades ago a statement such as this might have been acceptable. Today, however, too many people have emptied the contents of their attics, basements, boxes and trunks into […]
[…] in informal settings. I appreciated articles in Dialogue and discussions with friends that kept the issue a live for me. The well-documented Lester Bush article and the response by Eugene England entitled “The Mormon […]
[…] mirror of that girl, in an interconnectedness that suggests profound spirituality. Rilke wrote, “When I create I am true.” Often, reading Mrs. Brown’s poems one is reminded of the lucent aura of understanding love […]
[…] of freedom and autonomy in church de sign. The issue of genetic cloning is an explosive one today. In the same way, meddling in the creative process, forcing out diversity and character, is a […]
That last bastion of privacy—our personal diaries—has now been turned into a “progr am.” From the pulpit, we are admonished to keep diaries; we are treated to snatches of personal diaries in sacrament meeting, […]