For the Children of the Promise
May 3, 2018[…] I put out a convenient tableful of Church books in the living room, but no one c ame to browse or borrow. Why should this be? For one thing, the books lack visual stimulation. […]
[…] I put out a convenient tableful of Church books in the living room, but no one c ame to browse or borrow. Why should this be? For one thing, the books lack visual stimulation. […]
[…] repeatedly emphasized the lurid and sensational. In Riders of the Purple Sage and The Rainbow Trail, (1918 Fox Company releases based on the best-selling Zane Grey novels), catch phrases like “An Expose of Early […]
Sterling M. McMurrin has been a leading philosopher and educator for many years. Among his publications pertaining to the philosophy of religion are Religion, Reason, and Truth (1982) and The Theological Foundations of the […]
[…] a special sort of place in mind. The rabbits had lived too long in fear of the fox. They were weary of foraging with an ear always to the wind, ever cautious of the […]
[…] conservative political commentator and Latter-day Saint Glenn Beck praised The Real George Washington (published 1991) on his Fox News show as part of his “Founders’ Fridays” series. Beck labeled the book “the best book […]
As an epigraph to their anthology A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints, Richard Cracroft and Neal Lambert quote Orson F. Whitney’s 1888 Contributor essay, “Home Literature”: We shall yet have Miltons and […]
[…] on to say that “As a writer and as a person, I can honestly say that I am not particularly interested in Mormons. Not particularly. It is by a series of accidents of birth […]
Today there are more than 1,700 daily newspapers in the United States, many of which have circulations of several hundred thousand. Yet once a particular day’s news is superseded by the next, what remains […]
[…] in Haiti. Mormon programs air on the radio, positive articles on Mormonism are frequently published in local newspapers, and the Church’s humanitarian work is well-received in the country. However, what seems to make Mormonism […]
[…] Bear. The stark beauty of the tundra landscape with the caribou, polar bears, the snowy owls, Arctic foxes, seals, and deep freezes all feature. As do inuksuk, stone piles in stylized, near-human form that […]