Not many years after Voltaire delivered himself of his much maligned observation that history is a pack of tricks we play on the dead, historians began to attempt to prove him wrong by telling us…
Corn grows in my father’s backyard garden
in ten green files, each row a week taller,
the tallest now past two months, nearly ripe.
The years he’s planted gardens range beyond
the year that I was born in early spring,
but memory recalls three different plots
[…] Dean of Academic Affairs St. Olaf s College (Northfield, Minn.) Branch President Robert A. Rees Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles Sunday School and Primary Teacher The first act of the new […]
the father and his friends, holding
the holy high priesthood and the infant,
stand in a circle, facing each other,
right hands supporting the baby—
rising, falling to gentle it—
left hands on the next near neighbor shoulder,
on the stand before the meeting of saints
this fast and testimony Sunday;
[…] dedicated China in 1921), and some moving scenes (the director’s eye-witness account of filming the Japanese Man’s Search For Happiness for Expo ’70). So this is a book of people and exuberant human interest […]
A continuing problem of the Mormon intellectual is to remain both Mormon and intellectual. His is the problem of religious intellectuals generally—to dare to follow where the mind leads, to prevent the indecision that comes…
[…] The Ogden Standard-Examiner came out editorially in opposition to the demolition. But readers confined to the Deseret News would scarcely have known a controversy existed.) The first important opposition to the demolition plans came […]
One day last fall as I was getting acquainted with a student who was particularly interested in my Mormon background, the student told of being informed by a religion professor that Mormons weren’t Christians. This…
[…] and mental health. He currently teaches a Sunday School class for new members of their rapidly growing international urban ward. Dennis and Candice are raising two strong-minded teens who attend school in French in […]
It is not without some irony that one considers both the format and source of this collection of materials—the almost apologetic tone in which both the collection and so many of its individual pieces present…