[…] receive guidance from God, step by step, line by line. Mormonism started out as a “restorationist” church —intending to restore the realities of the Old and New Testaments to nineteenth-century America. It arrived at […]
[…] lives in the nineteenth century. Since she had just begun a doctoral program in history, she was our resident scholar. If we had a resident feminist, it was Judy Dushku, who came to that […]
[…] a principle that I, as a writer and editor, have come to see as a fact of our universe. The way we arrange words is determined by and, in turn, determines the way we […]
[…] Kimball speak at the Rose Bowl when I saw the Mormons for ERA-hired plane tow its banner —“Mother in Heaven Loves ERA”—through the skies of Pasadena. I was so curious, but there were no […]
Come join Lori on an exploration of Mosiah for our only May Gospel Study! Lori Thompson Forsyth has had a long and somewhat random history with the publishing industry. She was a typesetter at the Harvard Crimson…
[…] called them humble), to give them our saving pitch, do whatever it was we did. The body —black, limbs splayed like a doll’s—couldn’t have been much more than my age (twenty), couldn’t have been […]
Any volume with “fifteenth annual” in its title requires placement in historical and sociological context before it can be evaluated properly. Sponsor of this symposium is the 800-member University Archaeological Society. (The name was changed…
I don’t know why they’ve asked someone else to play the organ. I’ve been playing the organ in this ward for forty-eight years. When I first learned to play, I had to pump the […]
[…] front of came the sounds of horses and yelling. The director was telling someone to fall bigger —bigger!—and for someone else to find the fiddle player for the next scene. They tended to shoot […]
[…] this piece here. Dear President Russell M. Nelson, For centuries, the pope has been addressed as Your Holiness, and they call the Dalai Lama the Enlightened One, and that Hindu Bhagwan fellow is the Fortunate […]