[…] one letter each week to each of approximately one hundred and seventy-five missionaries. (Note to self: try writing a letter to your grandparents this afternoon.) The effort to decide between reading a letter and […]
[…] have been de lighted by the paintings and photographs, the music and the dance, the talk about writing, and everything else at the Festival. Does not the thirteenth article of faith say that “if […]
[…] and I experienced first hand several of these incidents. In 1968, Richard received the Bancroft Prize for writing a history book published the year before. This meant that we traveled from Utah to New […]
[…] of the same information shared in Lifton’s book, Lifton is most often quoted due to her readable writing style. Julia M. Middleton to Emma Smith Bidamon, 8 September 1873, St. Louis, Missouri. Julia M. […]
[…] leaders from almost every major U.S. denomination, especially if not supported by the United Nations. David Skidmore, writing for Episcopal News Services in December 2002, reported: In a letter to President Bush drafted Thanksgiving […]
[…] was replayed when Joseph Smith Jr. and Oliver Cowdery baptized each other in May 1829 during the writing of the Book of Mormon. Nearly two centuries later, Jesus appeared on the American continent following […]
[…] costs of its treatment, encouraging pharmaceutical companies to search for effective drugs, directing patients to support groups, writing about possible causes in journals—psychiatrists may be unwittingly colluding with broader cultural forces to contribute to […]
[…] of the membership is “active” by Latter-day Saint standards, meaning that they attend at least one religious service per month. The Church is ecclesiastically divided into the Helsinki and Tampere stakes in the south […]
[…] foreignness. In most of these stories (always accompanied by sizeable photographs), missionaries are seen as providing community service, such as teaching English, cleaning up streets, and visiting nursing homes or orphanages. But, interestingly, they […]
<i>Dialogue 41.4 (Winter 2008): 121–147</i><br>In this essay, I shall begin by describing what we can learn about our Mother in Heaven from the scriptures. I then will draw from those descriptions some (very modest) […]