[…] 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 […]
[…] statement “What I ami” is at the heart of the Mormon presentation. Joseph Smith, in his autobiographical writing, is assured and confident of his understanding of the prophetic calling: writing is not an occasion […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Mormon converts amounting to several thousands. Early in 1963, half a dozen missionaries were set apart for service in Nigeria that would have included not only proselyting, but also the construction and operation of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the greater part of my waking hours has been spent in the study of Mormon history. In writing a dissertation at the University of Chicago and then a book dealing in part with the […]
[…] minds of those who selected Leonard? The commission was to carry out a program of research and writing on Latter-day Saint history. A first kind of writing project would be scholarly books and articles […]
[…] perfunctory act, but one of great importance.” Moreover, Hugh B. Brown, in the last year of his service as a counselor in the First Presidency, told the youth of the Church at Brigham Young […]
[…] Latter-day Saints,” even though Gerald and Sandra Tanner proved long ago that it was a forgery. Taves’s writing of the Kirtland experience is equally lacking in sound scholar ship. He shows no evidence that […]