[…] Provo school into a showplace of LDS educational values. “More than any other single cause,” his successor observed, ” remarkable and relentless leadership … is the key to the present stature of Brigham Young University.”
[…] external imposition, shifting the locus of authority away from the power of the story itself (the “good news”) and toward an authority spawned by the partially artificial holiness suffusing our culturally created notion of […]
[…] love, can it be built at all? See William O. Nelson, “Refrain from Speculating about Zion,” Church News, 13 Feb. 1982,13. Here Zion is narrowly defined to mean only the city to be built […]
[…] being and an effective, charismatic leader. As quoted in Terry W. Call, “David O. McKay,” in Church News, Deseret News, 25 Sept. 1993. For a good descriptive overview of McKay’s varied accomplishments throughout the […]
[…] sin.” This one caught me off guard. “Sure ain’t much like a book, is it?” Front page news it was. Who could have driven away leaving the woman on the ground and her child—four […]
[…] So what are the apparent “vital interests” of the church today in its “defense of marriage?” I am in no position to speak for the church on this matter. However, from the public discourse […]
[…] programs, independent of reigning trends among English-speaking saints. Hymnals are perhaps a good place to start. “ News of the Church,” Ensign 26 (Mar. 1996): 77. Existing studies include: Rodolfo Acevedo, Los mormones en […]
[…] in a cloudless sky, warm breezes blew the music of the Royal Green Jackets band across Hyde Park. English families and tourists wandered the park or settled themselves on the grass and benches to listen.
[…] would be sent up soon. There was no need for them to go down there. With the news, arrangements had to be made. There was no getting around it. They had wanted everything to […]
[…] Annie Wells Cannon, Elsie Chamberlain Carroll, Alberta Huish Christensen, Christie Lund Coles, Vesta Pierce Crawford, Ruth May Fox, Mabel Jones Gabbott, Mabel Harmer, Lael Woolsey Hill, Ethel Jacobson, Bertha A. Kleinman, Mary Ek Knowles, […]