I approach a description of this latest book by Hugh Nibley with much hesitation. With Nibley, you buy a package that is as much image as content. He is either viewed as the exemplary […]
[…] University. He was a business genius. President of Merrill Petroleum, he subsequently became president of the Trans- Canada Pipeline Ltd, which in four years, under his direction built a $350 million, 2,000-mile-long pipeline through […]
[…] with the avowed purpose of lobbying Church administrators for the preservation of historic Mormon buildings. Then, business over, he patted the red leather chair. “I think I’m a preservationist at heart, myself.” It does […]
[…] OF MORMON THOUGHT 13 (Summer 1980): 7-49. Joseph Smith Hyde, Orson Hyde (Salt Lake City, 1933), p. 6; Zina D. Huntington Young Diary, 13 Nov. 1844, Historical Department Archives of The Church of Jesus […]
[…] all side-events took ten days. While at the fair, Juanita, not yet in her teens, decided to buy some ice cream with the dime and three nickels which were securely tied in the corner […]
[…] Jr., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Period I, ed. Brigham H. Roberts, 6 vols., 2nd ed, rev. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1948), 5: 393, 4: 575. Punctuation […]
[…] Apparently it was part of a recognition in many of the Church departments that experts should take over specialized functions, leaving the General Authorities free to exercise their role as spiritual leaders and as […]
This handsome volume immediately establishes itself as the definitive work on the Morrisite movement within Mormonism. A complete study of Joseph Morris and his followers has long been needed and LeRoy Anderson has filled the […]
[…] See prefatory discussion in Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina, ed. Wayland D. Hand, as vols. 6-7 (1961-64) of The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, 7 vols. (Durham, N.C.: Duke […]
What is this human intimacy, this condition that human beings seek “at every stage of life .. . as urgently as we seek food and drink . . . this need so powerful that we […]