[…] of Corinne as a legitimate rival to Salt Lake City was a chore to which the town’s newspapers applied themselves with vigor. For example, in 1870 the editor of the Corinne Reporter boasted that the […]
[…] Dog-gone me, with a blurb like that the Mormon reader is hooked. Unfortunately, however, the book doesn’t live up to the promise of the hype. The novel has no central character. There is no […]
[…] remembered as a year of indelible significance in Mormondom. Within a two-month period early in the year, stories about the Church twice achieved front-page status. During March the discovery of a 137-year-old document threatened […]
[…] a beloved General Authority to be. It is the story of the good boy who grew better and better, of the apostle as super-salesman. Conflicts are introduced only to be overcome. LeGrand Richards moves […]
[…] the Church as a corporate entity. For example, some of the more important include acquiring the Deseret News in 1900; purchasing historic sites beginning in 1903 and the gradual establishment of Bureaus of In […]
[…] deals with death. She relates with unpretentious poignancy how she and her husband con front the jarring news that he is dying and how they share his waning days to achieve personal and spiritual […]
[…] is, if wealth really brings success). As a financial consultant to clients throughout the western states I am amazed at the naivete with which many would-be Mormon millionaires set out with their positive mental […]
The explosion of books and articles on the Mormons over the past ten years is nothing short of phenomenal. Two books, James Allen and Glen Leonard’s Story of the Latter-day Saints and Leonard Arrington […]
[…] Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints receives several hundred thousand column inches of space in national and local newspaper. News items range from the local LDS missionaries in the community to the major eight-part series […]
[…] pull. “Be still,” I say, “you’ll scare the fish.” the river rolls over the rocks, tumbling mauve and ochre stones But still he stalks the fish, an ancient angler crouching in wet grass. “Where […]