[…] 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, […]
[…] the long haul. From disappointed expectations comes pain. Why set people up to fail?” Fair question. I am not as pessimistic as she about the track record of monogamy. I think that monogamy works […]
Mormon history is part of the colonization history of the American West; and the LDS Church, as a major player in that process, still bears a colonization imprint in many ways. The colonizing days […]
October 1954. I am age nineteen and in Clark’s Barbershop with Lloyd for his weekly duck’s butt haircut. He’s reading the Salt Lake Tribune and 1 am turning magazine pages. A coupon says, “Play […]