[…] our testimony will be judged lacking. Randall Hall’s novel Corey Davidson, described as a “well-written chronicle of breaking and contrition of hearts following transgression,” does just that. It’s a novel with a mission about […]
[…] through the front door at any time and decimate those innocent lives (“Park Host,” “There’s Too Much News,” and “Late-Night TV”). The most interesting aspect of this periph eral violence is that the reader […]
Roanld W. Walker’s study Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young is a valuable contribution to recent Mormon scholarship. Among other things, the book illuminates important questions and concerns of both past and present. Walker…
The next morning Allison dropped Howard at the Mormon church in Rockwood, which, except for the thin spire, was shaped like a large, sub urban house. Though he had asked, she refused to go inside…
[…] extermination for millennia, Jews are understandably suspicious of any attempt to convert them. This should not be news to Mormons, whose notorious missionary zeal raised stringent opposition to the construction of the BYU Jerusalem […]
[…] resident in what was then called an “insane asylum.” As one nineteenth-century reader of the LDS Deseret News wrote sarcastically, “insanity and confinement in an asylum for an indefinite time does not disqualify a […]
[…] two Beehives or Laurels; there may not be a scouting program. Ethnic congregations might not help promote English fluency as quickly. These converts are more segregated from mainstream church members, and there is sometimes […]
[…] to conceiving of it as a complex region of widely-varied countries and peoples, some rarely in the news. It is my hope that eventually someone will write a history of the church’s dealings in […]
[…] view. Whatever criticisms follow pale in importance to the fact that Bagley has produced this valuable book. The English-born Bullock himself mars his record with small minded complaints and petty criticism of the men around […]
[…] three lines placed once each month to coincide with Fast Sunday in the personals of the Deseret News: Sacred objects for testimony, trials, triumphs. Lovers of Holy Jesus and his Latter-day Saints welcome, […]