Wives Take Over
April 30, 2018Since previously exposing myself in a sometimes quite personal way in this column I have had the heady and maybe trying experience of having some readers wishing to engage in a dialogue with me via…
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Out of Limbo
April 30, 2018Particularly since he had been a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, loss of church membership was shattering to my father’s professional, social and business affairs. One day John W. Taylor was revered as…
Among the Mormons: A Survey of Current Literature
April 29, 2018Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. —Edward Young, Love of Fame It has been this writer’s practice in the past to single out a sample of theses…
Science and Religion: A Symbiosis
April 27, 2018For most of us, there is little doubt that science was victorious in its centuries-long warfare with theology. From Galileo—kneeling in the robes of a penitent criminal before his Inquisitors, pleading for mercy on the grounds of age and infirmity— we have come full circle, to William Jennings Bryan in the dock at the Scopes “Monkey Trial”—trying desperately to demonstrate the Bible as the infallible guide to the story of Creation, then succumbing without dignity to the pitiless goad of Clarence Darrow.
Nostrums in the Newsroom
April 26, 2018Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Six was not a dull year for the 127-year-old Deseret News. Melvin Dummar, a Box Elder County service station operator, was named, along with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,…
The Church as Broadcaster
April 25, 2018The Mormon Church is a formidable broadcast institution. Through subsidiary corporations and institutions it owns sixteen radio and television stations, a sophisticated international broadcast distribution system, a Washington news bureau, a cable TV system and production and consulting divisions.
Provoans | Douglas H. Thayer, “Under the Cottonwoods” and Other Mormon Stories
April 25, 2018Little of the Mormon fiction published thus far has dealt significantly with the central issues of Latter-day Saint religious life. On the one hand there is the propagandistic fiction, found chiefly in the church magazines,…
Quackery and Mormons: A Latter-day Dilemma
April 24, 2018The following interview is with a man tried by the state of Utah as a “quack.”[1] His practice is based on massage, herbs, health foods and in reading the iris of the eyes. The trial…
Mary Fielding Smith: Her Ox Goes Marching On
April 19, 2018I should preface these remarks by establishing two things. First, I am no blood relation to Mary Fielding Smith, although, like all of you, I proudly claim her for a spiritual sister; second, my subject…
From Apostle to Apostate: The Personal Struggle of Amasa Mason Lyman
April 19, 2018The principles of the gospel are perfect,” President Brigham Young admonished his audience early in the summer of 1867, “but are the Apostles who teach it perfect?” Even though he provided an answer (“No, they…