A Little Bit of Heaven
April 26, 2018[…] read the scriptures any longer, he would call up whole pages memorized fifty or sixty years be fore. I was convinced he knew all four standard works by heart. I can still hear him […]
[…] read the scriptures any longer, he would call up whole pages memorized fifty or sixty years be fore. I was convinced he knew all four standard works by heart. I can still hear him […]
[…] Guide to the Historical Department welcomes scholars and, indeed, provides them with a list of “Finding Aids” for exploring the riches of the Archives and the Library in the new Church Office Building in […]
[…] professor, considers the Mormons as one case under “the legitimation of marginal religions,” recapping the polygamy contr oversy in a way most Mormons will not have encountered. Janet L. Dolgin, a former student of […]
Progress implies change and for this writer the call to explore new opportunities has become more insistent in recent years. It will soon be ten years since this column appeared in the first issue […]
[…] and your whole soul; and if ye do this ye shall in nowise be cast out. (25:1 6,19) If we can accept these ideas, it follows that the music associated with worship, in order […]
My grandfather, for whom I was named, was born in 1878 in a four-room stone house built by his father in Round Valley, near Morgan, Utah. My great grandfather had a small farm there […]
[…] a mission to manage, the ranch, observe that some very fine people used tobacco, and attribute mis fortune to mismanagement or lack of judgement but never to a displeased God. He was a patriarch […]
Just over ten years ago I was approached by four young Mormons who were affiliated with Stanford University in one capacity or another. They wanted to know if there was a library market for […]
[…] still with three children and going nowhere in particular. Recently a couple with a new baby—their 1 3th—asked: “What now? We are still very fertile, but we can’t handle anymore.” A 31-year-old woman married […]
[…] still evident in modern feature film and television portrayals. In the forefront was Hands UP! a 192 6 comedy starring Raymond Griffith. Even though Mormonism was a relatively minor theme in the plot, this […]