Although as Mormons we are fond of say ing that we are in the world but not of it, the boundaries we establish between ourselves and worldly influences become very thin when we consider […]
Although as Mormons we are fond of say ing that we are in the world but not of it, the boundaries we establish between ourselves and worldly influences become very thin when we consider […]
When Dennis Cormier arrived on the fifteenth floor of the Church Office Build ing in downtown Salt Lake City, his first appointment was already waiting. The visitor was fleshy, jowls and hips, about Dennis’ […]
[…] Carson in middle school, Jordan in elementary—which means weekdays start at 6:00 A.M. and quickly unspool, devolv ing into a mad scramble of showers and hair dryers and cold lunches and lost homework and […]
[…] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, learned journals were silent. But he himself, with pardonable pri de, had described his work as “monumental.” One Mormon, answering Bernard De Voto’s contemptuous description of Utah […]
One of the most obvious forms of Mormon adjustment to contemporary American society is our increas ing acceptance of its economic doctrines and attitudes concerning the proper accumulation and uses of material wealth. Indeed, […]
[…] the better part of a month, I was with a group of young Mormons bent on giv ing the Church a vigorous expression in all the arts. We were not very clear as to […]
The follow ing is a transcript of a discussion held in Los Angeles in March, 1975. The discussion was organized by Jerry Kaufmann, an investigator of Mormonism from New York. In addition to Kaufmann, […]
My earliest memory of my Bluebird class in Primary is cross-stitch ing a sampler: “I will light up my home.” Our teacher admonished us to embroider carefully because we would want our samplers to […]
The year 1981 saw the deaths of Harvey Fletcher and Henry Eyr ing, men of great religious faith whose superb professional achievements placed them in the first ranks of the nation’s scientists. (See Steven […]