[…] clearly another piece of anti-Mormon writing, a genre familiar enough to Mormon scholars. Mr. Walters’ purpose, like that of many of his predecessors, was to discredit Joseph Smith’s account of the first vision and […]
“Probably the key issue in my entire mission was whether I should do everything my leaders told me to do. This issue, I believe, will be one of major importance in the years to come.”…
“Thank goodness I don’t have to live there! How do they stand it?” The revolting, depressing drabness and ugliness of the little Mormon towns we were driving through made my artist’s soul shiver. Never had […]
[…] and women watched men; it intimated nothing. So tonight she would glance and even smile, but fleetingly —unconsciously. Then she could hear his footsteps: she smoothed her skirt, she touched her hair, she looked […]
[…] the dim, empty halls, forever smelling of disinfectant, and ride the groaning, clanking elevator to my post —death row. Mack Rivenberg and Jesse Garcia would usually be awake waiting for me. Both were condemned […]
Are you afraid again,
Doing without end?
Listen into stone.
Shut your skin to the sun.
James E. Talmage was one of the most significant Mormon leaders in the early twentieth century. Internationally known scientist, outstanding educator, Apostle, and author of some of the most enduring theological works in the Church,…
All three of these poets claim, explicitly or implicitly, to be “western,” and it is unlikely that anyone will challenge the claim. Their poems reflect the western landscape, or, more specifically, the Great Basin […]
[…] journalist, and widely admired champion of Mormonism before the world; and Roberts’ day was a long one —for nearly forty-five years he served as a general authority of the Church. Yet many of the […]
[…] (home teachers, ward members) do with me?” Her responses set the tone for a series of mini-lectures —each a chapter—which implore single women to “choose life” (Deuteronomy 31:19) rather than loneliness or bitterness. Many […]