[…] it but to tear up and take a six months trip across the plains with ox te ams to the Pacific Ocean” (p. 209). Keturah Belknap, the twenty-eight-year-old devout Methodist who made this entry […]
[…] Kimball wrote in his journal in 1951, on the occasion of David O. McKay’s becoming president, “I am positive that the appointments of His Twelve by the Lord and the subsequent deaths control the Presidency […]
[…] it includes names of offices that are no longer used (pastors, evangelists). The suggestion from Talmage that today’s pastors are stake presidents and that evangelists are patriarchs is not really satisfactory since those offices […]
“ Today,” said the teacher, “we have a special activity. We’re going to have a survey and find out how many brothers and sisters we all have.” One little girl from an LDS family […]
Dialogue 17.3 (Fall 1984): 75–88
Utah Mormons have had over a hundred years in which to systematize and institutionalize their beliefs. Institutionalized religion tends to expend its energies in conserving and promulgating the truths once […]
[…] of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. —Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Benj amin Rush, 1800 I offer here a personal response to the increasingly stern demands for conformity and the […]
[…] and manuscript dealers as well as some archivists and librarians who acquire and manage rare books and manuscripts for large institutions. However, this is a personal statement and I alone am responsible for its content.
[…] believe about the world is determined by my will, it is my obligation to show that I am free and to announce to the world my commitment to my subjective truth (1906, Bk 3). […]
[…] the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades, in the eastern sky. That night, ten of us from the Willi am Stafford poetry workshop walked New Smyrna Beach, Florida, to look through four pairs of binoculars, each […]
[…] know that similar circumstances do not determine similar results. There are so many challenges to living in today’s world that we must put our feet firmly in the present and not over reference ourselves […]