“If Thou Wilt Be Perfect”
May 3, 2018[…] a Church. Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Joseph Fielding Smith, ed (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Press, 1942), p. 366. Elder Harold B. Lee, Conference Report, April 1966, p. 64. Journal of […]
[…] a Church. Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Joseph Fielding Smith, ed (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Press, 1942), p. 366. Elder Harold B. Lee, Conference Report, April 1966, p. 64. Journal of […]
I appreciate the magnanimous spirit of Dialogue in printing my essay and this reply. Dr. Bushman’s courteous and able polemic is regrettably marred by some historical inaccuracies and by a tendency to set aside historical…
[…] Bookcraft and Deseret Book and articles in Mormon journals such as the Improvement Era and the Church News were not included under the assumption that our readers would be aware of these materials. It […]
[…] expensive or unavailable if purchased by individuals alone. Consequently, government at all levels—local, state, federal and even international—will have to provide these. In addition, members of society may wish to redistribute a larger pro […]
Almost three years ago I agreed to review Perry Miller’s posthumous publication, The Life of the Mind in America, From the Revolution to the Civil War, and Daniel J. Boorstin’s The Americans: The National Experience,…
[…] Church bookstores are not the place for secular topics. If a person wants a textbook approach to finance, history, mathematics, etc., he goes to the appropriate secular books. In Church books he seeks moral […]
[…] Murals. Brigham Young University, 1968. Palmer, Glen Lambert. Browning Arms: A Utah Corporation in the Sphere of International Relations. Brigham Young University, 1968. Palmer, Grant H. The Godbeite Movement: A Dissent Against Temporal Control. […]
[…] totally unknown in that literature. If by saying this much and no more, I persuade others to search out the book and savor its quality, I shall have done well. Another autobiography of genuine […]
The New York Times article reporting the death of Vardis Fisher in 1968 said, predictably, that Fisher was “perhaps most widely known as the author of Children of God, a historical novel about the Mormons.”[1]…
[…] his forefathers and his own earlier missionary labors, he just beamed, thrilled and happy to hear this news, and visited with us in his gracious manner. We love and honor President McKay among the […]