Vardis Fisher and the Mormons
May 3, 2018[…] have never made a cult of Vardis Fisher. Reared a Mormon, Fisher at age eighteen had al ready abandoned the church of his fathers to go his independent way. Yet Fisher’s Mormon ism ran […]
[…] have never made a cult of Vardis Fisher. Reared a Mormon, Fisher at age eighteen had al ready abandoned the church of his fathers to go his independent way. Yet Fisher’s Mormon ism ran […]
[…] a new era of cross-cultural encounters that transformed Mormons’ relationship to their church and to the world, today the internet is acting in a similarly transformative way (viii). He writes: The young Latter-day Saints […]
[…] I am probably guilty as charged. However, I think I understand why there exists a gap between today’s young people and the institutionalized values of their country. The second factor contributing to the existence […]
[…] even more undiscriminating hearts.” In the hard Icelandic life a man like Steinar is “overwhelmed with the news that Zion was to be found on earth, with vacancies available.” After a while, Steinar revealed […]
[…] the Reorganization. Typical of the body of literature are the following: The Restoration Story and The Good News, both missionary booklets of the 1950’s; Telling the Gospel Story, a junior quarterly of 1945; E.A. […]
[…] a different situation from that of my “gentile” colleagues. A quiet despair pervades most graduate student circles today, but unlike most of my friends, I am not despondent. Our bull sessions and smokers are […]
[…] tiful literary achievement — whether one examines the first volume to appear (Genesis by E. Speiser), or the latest (Psalms, 3 vols., M. Dahood). Job, treat ed by M. H. Pope (1965), is particularly well […]
At Christmas time I like to read the Gospels again. Partly out of tradition, no doubt, and the love of tradition. For in tradition lies much of the special charm and cheer of holidays. […]
[…] live in a society which (because of its science and technology) pays so much respect to intellectualism. Today, I believe, very little attention is given by Mormons to explain their faith to others on […]
[…] Persecution to Prosperity and Power.” American Heritage 28 (June 1977): 74-83. ———. “The Mormons of Yesterday and Today.” Idaho Yesterdays 19 (Fall 1975): 2-7. Poll, Richard D. “The Americanism of Utah.” Utah Historical Quarterly […]