In all of Mormondom, only a handful of organs really deserve the name. The overwhelming and depressing majority of our instruments are electronic imitations (appliances, a friend of mine calls them) or cheap pipe organs…
[…] cannot escape from existence nor can it escape from the awareness of its existence . . . —B. F. Cummings The Matter At Large: Mormon Beliefs and Mormon Fiction What do the phrases “Mormon […]
The sensibility described by Amy Lowell —that there is something odd about women who write serious poetry—is still given substance today by the endangered state of the species. Even I will not waste time […]
I was born in the Church and have always been active in it —more or less. My conviction in the validity of its claims has vacillated over the years. Until recently there always had […]
[…] biographies, she said that in her work on Joseph Smith, No Man Knows My History, she was not involved with it “except by inadvertence.” It was the Joseph Smith volume, of course, her first […]
[…] one hundred years old. Last summer we celebrated what would have been his one hundredth birthday, had he lived. He was born in 1875 in Huntsville, Utah. The children, grandchildren, and great-children gathered for […]
[…] “non-traditional writings of women.” The institute was held at the University of Alabama, directed by Leonore Hoffmann, and taught by three fulltime faculty plus many one- or two-day lecturers, including Florence Howe of the Feminist […]
Born in 1807 in Burlington, New York, Parley P. Pratt was baptized by Oliver Cowdery in Seneca Lake on 1 September 1830, less than five months after the Church’s founding. Among the first to be […]
[…] us as that of a mother for her nursing child. Certainly this is an attribute to which all men should aspire. And yet God has at this time seen fit to deny fathers the […]
[…] Charlotte England traveled to Salt Lake City from Northfield, Minnesota. They made the trip in The Chevrolet —a brown stationwagon of uncertain origin. The Chevrolet did not manage the trip very well. Little wonder, […]