The present esc alation in nuclear weapons technology between the United States and the Soviet Union has progressed beyond the point where any increase in such weaponry necessarily results in increased national security. It […]
Nineteenth-century Latter-day Saint women showed a remarkable propensity for organiz ing. To engage in benevolent service, to share useful information, to fill social and spiritual needs, they met together in the humid summers of […]
[…] prefatory note: “As the nature of the office of Patriarch, does not seem to be fully un derstood, we thought a little explanation on this point might not be amiss.”If what followed failed in […]
[…] I kneel to needlepoint nice words in quiet careful prayer of thanks, look upon me also rend ing thick doubt with a shout ripping all the threads of dread romping through new folds of […]
[…] to People like Me.” DIALOGUE published it that winter and the Saints’ Herald reprinted it the follow ing year. In response to an invitation from the John Whitmer Historical Association, I took occasion recently […]
For once the l anguage of bookhype might ring true: the publication of Levi Peterson’s Canyons of Grace as one of the four volumes this year in the Illinois Short Fiction Series can be […]
A silo collapsed and buried my brother in-law un der tons of grain. At his funeral, a speaker offered comfort by saying that God “had need of Leon on the other side.” One of […]
For nearly a decade, the greater part of my wak ing hours has been spent in the study of Mormon history. In writing a dissertation at the University of Chicago and then a book […]
[…] that might indicate that I’m already half through. But it needed to be long to convey someth ing of a lurid past that calls for “confessions.” “More perfect order within” suggests both the problem […]
[…] all concluding that the Book of Mormon is a verifiable, religious revelation. Book of Mormon Authorship is inten ded as evidence for the faithful, as a challenge to the skeptic, and as a thorn in […]