[…] responsibility, one member of the quorum presidency accepted as his primary duty the coordination of the community service project. 3. Use of existing agencies. This decision was dictated by our lack of experience and […]
[…] and YWMIA General Boards of the Church. The following explanation accompanied the questionnaire: I am researching and writing a profile of women in L.D.S. leadership positions, largely General Board members, and I am there- […]
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[…] is perhaps in his daily life no greater mythomaniac than most people, but at the moment of writing he believes in his fiction totally and absolutely. Herein lies also one of the main reasons […]
Some have suggested that the most successful writing about the Mormon experience in the nineteenth-century comes from the frail and fading pages of the personal accounts recorded by first generation Mormons. From the first […]
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[…] payoff for all the work was access to this comradeship. In this company of historians, person and writing merge. As we become better acquainted, we begin to hear personality coming through the words on […]
[…] (The Book of Mormon Girl is, after all, a personal memoir!) My own undergraduate years were spent writing and editing articles for a variety of small Utah newspapers. I remember how daunting it felt […]
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[…] found articles that speak to you. I must admit that I often turn first to the book reviews—it is a way for me to obtain thoughtful insight into the best of the new Mormon-themed […]