[…] my life. I met smiling Alice Spencer at BYU after serving as a missionary in New Zealand —thirty months as a proselyting missionary and district president, and an additional fifteen months as acting mission […]
[…] for many miles singing, “Some must push and some must pull” before their miracle happened. They inherited a wagon -— all in the moment a hand could turn from side to side. It was […]
I sat there on the bench in Lecture Block C at Cambridge University with a very real ache in my brain where my classical education should have been. It was a rare warm day […]
[…] Profanity.” Maybe that was not an intentional emendation but, as one couldn’t help suggesting, a Freudian slip —just a little gremlin of the superego editing the program and not the mind of Sunstone Symposium […]
[…] He was alluding to pyramid schemes and speculative investments initiated by unscrupulous LDS individuals preying upon the trust between people with cultural and religious bonds. Professional concern about involvement of LDS leaders in fraudulent […]
[…] the list of General Authorities invited to the first area conference of the Church in Manchester, England —perhaps a prudent decision in view of his waning health. Still, he had hoped for one more […]
[…] rose dramatically, and more baptisms were registered in Marseille than elsewhere in the mission (Norton 1979, 2 —3). Meanwhile a new mission president, Milton Christensen, had arrived in France in November 1957. Before departing, […]
[…] “Don Haines says Dave Alderman says . . . .” Jeez! Jack still couldn’t believe it — no, he couldn’t understand it: five years in Flagstaff and his brother had never been on the […]
Until recently, attempts to vindicate the central claim of the Book of Mormon —that it is a divinely inspired book based on the history of an ancient culture—have focused mainly on external evidences. Such […]
[…] podium, but primarily because of my respect for the man in whose name these lectures are held —Parley A. Christensen. I took four classes from Professor Christensen during my undergraduate years—Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and […]