[…] Creed Haymond “wanted the Elders to learn humility and faith thru these experiences.” Haymond told the Church News, “If this work did nothing else it made good missionaries.” Missionaries frequently referred to their experiences […]
[…] never realized how dangerous until I was enlightened by a recent marriage announcement in The Anchorage Daily News. I must protect my journalistic source by not citing it because one can quickly be pushed […]
[…] Utah, and fought in Europe during World War II. Many interviewees have now passed away, and I am thrilled their stories were preserved. Most interviewees describe their lives in their own communities. A few […]
[…] most parts of the world. Growth is particularly impressive in Latin America. In 1971 there were only 217,500 LDS members on this continent, accounting for no more than seven percent of the church’s total membership.
[…] visitation; however, the veil did not part as I expected it would. Phyllis Barber’s collection of short stories, Parting the Veil: Stones from a Mormon Imagination, illustrates the form our longing for the divine can […]
Much has been written about the heroines in Virginia Sorensen’s adult fiction, their real-life counterparts, and inspirations. By contrast, relatively little attention has been given to her male characters and the family figures on […]
<i>Dialogue 35.3 (Fall 2003):9a–128</i><br>I am a literary critic who has spent a professional lifetime reading, teaching, and writing about literary texts. Much of my interest in and approach to the Book of Mormon lies […]
[…] of encouragement), and following a few minor modifications, Talmage’s talk was printed in the November 1931 Deseret News, as well as in a separate church pamphlet at about the same time (the “pamphlet” was […]
[…] Then, shortly after noon, he calls his mother, who has just returned from church, and breaks the news to her that we’re coming. He drops me at my apartment for a quick shower while […]
[…] see as the six major differences between the two churches during the first century of their existence, and then I will look at eight new differences that have emerged over the past forty years […]