Mormon history h as always been a hot topic. From the earliest days of Church history over a century and a half ago, vastly divergent accounts of the origins and development of the Church […]
When Sarah Roundy Sylvester was fight ing death in the fall of 1938 she must have felt her life was unsuccessful. The promises of a good education, the status of a significant and unusual […]
During the spring of 1984, the editors of DI ALOGUE sent a short questionnaire to all of its then-2,300 subscribers plus 600 who had let their subscriptions lapse in the previous year. At that […]
[…] January, Bigler noted in his journal that “some kind of mettle was found looks like goald” (Gud de 1962, viii; Extracts, 1932, 95). While he almost certainly had no idea of the significance of […]
[…] by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1962. By 1979, it had gone through its sixth print ing. Yet her most substantial contribution was in the writing of biographies and the editing of pioneer […]
In July 1984, I attended testimony meeting in my home ward in Salt Lake City. As the previous month’s crop of infants were blessed, I thought that after the sacrament I would go home. […]
Our family had just finished the pre-service reception, and Brother Holbrook, the funer al director, had just closed the doors to the Relief Society room. As Mother’s surviving sisters and their families filed past […]
The recognition of Brigham Young as lea der of the Church in August 1844 and the reorganization of the First Presidency under his direction in December 1847 have provided the basic pattern and precedent […]
For Jews, the Bible is an animate be ing. Understanding it means understanding everything we have experienced. The sum of meaning in the Bible is the sum of life’s meaning. Judaism is over 2,000 […]
For a book of remembrance we have written among us, accord ing to the pattern given by the finger of God; and it is given in our own language (Moses 6:46). Sometimes in my journey through […]