[…] I took four classes from Professor Christensen during my undergraduate years—Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and History of the English Language. I would hope that the literature that nurtured us both has instilled in me the […]
[…] home for a family meeting. The next morning, she arranged for her husband’s doctor to break the news and encourage her husband to check himself into the hospital, which he did briefly. Meanwhile, she […]
[…] long-standing ladies literary and cultural club organized originally in the 1930s in honor of a beloved BYU English professor, Alice Louise Reynolds (Ballif n.d.). Although the group included many younger women concerned with feminist […]
[…] my junior year, I won a $10 prize for writing the best Christmas story for the Y News; then in the spring I was awarded the Elsie C. Carrol medal for best short story. […]
[…] States—27 percent of total Church membership in 1990. In contrast, the United States had 56 percent {Deseret News Church Almanac 1991). When one considers these figures in light of the ever-increasing Church growth rate, even […]
[…] lights of evening, or the sprawling train maps at every train stop. Fractured grammar made even familiar English words on shop signs and T-shirts seem foreign. But it didn’t matter. My assigned companion was […]
[…] house prior to dedication and marveled that it was even possible to get materials for, much less finance, such a beautiful building. They assumed—incorrectly—that all the money had come from the United States. Stylistically the […]
[…] the First Presidency has made a statement discouraging mod ern-English versions of the Book of Mormon (Church News, 20 Feb. 1993), but I honestly don’t see what they’re upset about. After all, the church […]
[…] (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987), 138-61; Richard L. Jensen, “Mother Tongue: Use of Non- English Languages in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United States, 1850-1983,” in […]
[…] concluded that the principle of plural marriage must have been revealed to Joseph Smith in 1831 (Deseret News, May 20,1886). In the December 8,1831, Ohio Star, Ezra Booth wrote of a Mormon revelation to […]