Ardmoore told Carmen Stavely, who’d been away in Idaho visiting family, that what happened that Sunday morning was absolutely confidential. The bishop had instructed all who’d been present to keep the matter strictly to themselves; […]
Julie was asked to be baptized for the dead. Her teacher, Mrs. Dixon, had read down the roll, asking the girls in alphabetical order. She had moved into Julie’s neighborhood, just up the street in […]
[…] by an ocean. Whole states had been covered by water. “Millions of years ago,” Grandpa would say —he’d kicked back from his writing desk—”pressure under the earth thrust great mountain ranges like the Sierra-Nevadas […]
[…] any difference. I know that. I’ve traveled the world, and there are many who thought they’d escape. They crouch under cliffs and swim across rivers, and I discover their secrets thousands of years later. […]
The philosopher Plato, to whom dialogue was the highest expression of intellectuality, denned thought as “the dialogue of the soul with itself.” It is thus altogether fitting that the editors of Dialogue should encourage Mormon […]
It is through the performance of creative arts, in art, in thought in personal relationships that the city can be identified as something more than a purely functional organization . . . Lewis Mumford Perhaps it is presumptuous […]
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing. Samuel Butler the Younger, Life and Habit Reader who…
[…] local group or branch is largely dependent on the presence of temporary residents for its leadership, and indeed its membership. Members living away from their homes, especially abroad, frequently wish to take their church […]
Utah has achieved the dubious distinction of making the pages of the prestigious organ of America’s publication industry, Publishers’ Weekly. To some the publicity achieved in the article “Bookstore Perishes in Wake of Utah Obscenity Legislation” represents a disheartening step into further denial of free agency. To others it represents a heartening step in the direction of rooting out the devil all around us.
[…] set, designed by Clif A. Davis, suggested the large attic of an old house. Items of rummage —furniture, chests, boxes, knickknacks—were scattered about. As the performers, like people at a sale, browsed, a particular […]