[…] process of creation. Actually, the systematic study of Mormon institutions and history is a relatively recent phenomenon. Writings about the Mormons during the first seventy-five years after the Church was organized in 1830 consisted […]
[…] point at issue. As the major thesis of my article I deplored the smothering of our creative writing talent and lamented the house-organ level of our internal literature. To refute this, my critics need […]
[…] “Probably not. There’s no way to force him. Legally, he’s her sole custodian.” I could see the writing on the wall. It was time for me to articulate the inevitable. “Maybe you should stay […]
[…] 2 8 16 High 3 5 15 N (100%) = 958 296 Table 6: Attendance at Church Services Denominations:* Congreg. Meth. Episc. Disc. of Christ Presb. Am. Luth. Am. Bapt. Mo. Luth. So. Bapt. […]
[…] two years’ study in a reputable college music department. This study should include both melodic and harmonic writing, musical form, and background in music practice from the Renaissance through the twentieth century. The texts […]
[…] and developed skills of poetry and music to match the needs of our day. Perhaps too much writing is being drained off by the commercial-religious entertainment field and other non-religious, but more profitable, avenues of […]
[…] highly laudatory. Among these is an assessment by the scholar who is now Church Historian, Leonard Arrington. Writing in 1966, Arrington stated that O’Dea’s works “offer unquestionably the best ‘outside’ view of Mormon thought […]
[…] Pratt and of the various autobiographical sketches of Joseph Smith, most especially that contained in the “ Writings of Joseph Smith” in the Pearl of Great Price. Although The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt […]
[…] for Itself.” Pontiac (Mich.) Oakland Press. 28 January 1978. “Mormons Practice Their Beliefs in Family Life and Service to Church.” Aurora (111.) Beacon-News. 10 September 1978. Parisi, Kim. “Mormons Believe Good Family Life Brings […]
[…] in Smith’s Genealogy Society talk, a copy of which had been forwarded to him by his father. Writing to Apostle Talmage in June, just a few weeks after the apparent resolution of the Roberts-Smith […]