Be advised: a biography that thanks “team members” for accommodating “impossible scheduling” just might be thrown together hastily. And in spite of an attempt to lend an aura of authenticity to the book by acknowledging…
Only rarely does a piece of writing capture the imagination of both novice and professional alike. Even more infrequently does such a work begin as a Ph.D. dissertation or master’s thesis. Certainly the most renowned…
[…] bus; his overpowering voice drew the attention of everyone as he rambled on about Joseph Smith and World War II and the gamblers today who waste all their money at the racetracks, leaving no […]
[…] continuing loyalty to family, friends and religion. Their pilgrimage is a proud one, and they seek to share it with their brothers who need not fear to accompany them. Mormon women can be safely […]
[…] and theses reflects a continued willingness on the part of our institutions of higher learning to encourage scholarly inquiry, despite the reality that much of what is produced will be read by only a handful.
This triumphant biography is very much what we would expect the official story of a beloved General Authority to be. It is the story of the good boy who grew better and better, of the…
We probe and scrape and peel away the faded
Multicolored layers of a lifetime,
Like Schliemann
(Who ? Grandmother asks)
[…] submitted to the quorums, orders, and councils of the church and also to the delegations sitting in World Conference for their action on it as embodying the word and will of God. Many refinements […]
[…] very special call. In a series of letters, he begged Brigham Young to counsel with him and share aspects of leadership in the earthly kingdom. Young continually dismissed Morris as a crazed apostate, refusing […]
[…] prevented by wise and disciplined living” (p. 3), he for gets Job, the Poles and Jews in World War II, and the innocents of every age who suffer death and pain along with the guilty. […]