[…] covers the sensitive and important problems that con fronted the Church as it sought to become a world-wide denomination. Gary L. Bunker and Davis Bitton, in capturing The Mormon Graphic Image, 1834- 1914, have […]
[…] dreary procession of political appointees; however, the book is not without some problems. Limbaugh sometimes leaves the reader mired in detail without a clear sense of a main thesis. For example, he uses carpet […]
[…] mid-1960s by leaders of the LDS Church. (See First Presidency statement of 14 April 1969 and Church News editorials during the late 1960s and early ’70s.) If Church members whole-heartedly accepted these statements, one […]
“ Today,” said the teacher, “we have a special activity. We’re going to have a survey and find out how many brothers and sisters we all have.” One little girl from an LDS family […]
[…] marble wall. I will wait for you to ascend the marble stair; I will not vision other- world hands or another day to do this: to taste the oil; I, too, will not be […]
Vermont, Autumn 1805
And the boy, the milky angel said,
will be like the wild rain
that shatters the crops and spins the brittle stalks
end upon end.
[…] Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery. These three vastly different books will interest both the Mormon and non-Mormon reader alike. A similar experience awaits those who take time to look at Gordon and Gary Shepherd’s […]
[…] talked, awkwardly. Not much to talk about either, I realized, when you’ve lost touch with the outside world. Even knowing that Christmas is a few days away doesn’t make life happier in a nursing […]
[…] of the Mormon community of Winter Quarters, Missouri, are detailed by Richard Edmond Bennett. Music enthusiasts should read Fern Denise Gregory’s descriptive survey, “J. Spencer Cornwall: The Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle Choir Years, 1935-1957.” […]
[…] Morning comes. The sky, still bright with suns, shows me the blue of my own veins. The world is left in the absence of wanting. I walk among the sheep with new eyes and […]