[…] character, the newspaper as a corporation and as a reflection of Mormon accomodation with American culture. The writing tends to be professional in the historical sense and the subject matter treated as one would […]
[…] their way through school as bootleggers, which seemed interesting enough to mention in a column I was writing for the college paper. This proved to be a quick lesson in the power of the […]
[…] Joseph Smith Sr., James Bywater, Benjamin Winchester and Francis De St. Jeor, were directly influenced by rationalistic writings. Nonetheless, a secular world view had challenged Christian assumptions and penetrated the thinking of the average […]
[…] a revelation and the blacks will be given the Priesthood.” We were stunned and jumped up to get to the radio. It was the kind of story that had to be shared, and within […]
[…] the most cloistered and censorious little cause for complaint. Enclosed within its pages are two poems, two essays, and nine stories, “none beneath the attention of adults or beyond the interest of children” to […]
[…] theme and genre, but there are at least eight identifiable authors. If this is an experiment in writing, however, it is a successful one. Palmer’s book joins the recent biography of President Kimball as […]
[…] words “cyclical,” “revolution,” “catastrophism” and “creationism” were altogether ignored, however, in the English edition of his seminal Essay on the Theory of the Earth (1812) translated by the Scottish geologist Robert Jameson in 1813. […]
[…] and an increase in the number of regular doctors (who attracted some Mormons), he could see the writing on the wall. Had he lived longer, he likely would have announced the compromise position that […]
[…] quotations to avoid the appearance of a novel, and presumably shuns direct presentation of the issues in essay form to avoid the appearance of a technical review. The main failure is the attempt to […]
The following interview is with a man tried by the state of Utah as a “quack.” His practice is based on massage, herbs, health foods and in reading the iris of the eyes. The trial […]