It is an honor for me to speak here, partly because of the standard of excellence set by those who have preceded me at this podium, but primarily because of my respect for the […]
For years cultural geographers, folklorists, and other researchers have identified and delineated the Mormon region of the American West by charting characteristic elements of its cultural landscape. In his 1952 work The Mormon […]
[…] all of whom lived far out in the country. The twelve girls in one family were known for chasing missionaries and any other boys they could catch; their cousins who lived on the opposite […]
[…] The stone crashed through a double-paned window, just below the stained-glass fleur-de-lis my wife Charlotte had made for our entryway; the brick struck the large bay window where Charlotte’s violin lies on our piano, […]
[…] instead, congregations worshipping America. The Fourth of July, the approaching bicentennial of the American constitution, Pioneer Day— for five weeks I sat in sacrament meetings and listened to sermons and testimonies that celebrated America […]
[…] the printed version. For citational and bibliographical purposes, please use the printed version or the PDFs provided online and on JSTOR. This famous phrase occurs in the sixteenth chapter of Roughing It and is […]
[…] of the receipt and publication of the revelations, then describe the changes themselves and evaluate possible explanations for them. Background of the Revelations Joseph Smith, as prophet and leader of the restored church of […]
For Ernest Leroy Wilkinson, successful Washington, D.C., lawyer and seventh president of Brigham Young University, campaign politics was a game he could never master. From his rowdy youth in Ogden, Utah’s notorious Hell’s […]
[…] Saints of the 1960s mirrored the general tumult, if not the details, of the larger American society. For reasons similar to those prompting change in the United States, the Reorganization also wrestled, seemingly for […]
When one travels to Israel, it soon becomes clear that most of the traditional sites for events in the New Testament represent locations selected by religious sentimentality, not scientific archeology. Too many publications of […]