[…] the Latter-day Saint against accepting “interpretation” when secular scholars do it (p. 6). Pearson dates Ezra (whom, for some unspecified reason, he credits with writing the books of Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, Ruth, and […]
[…] an ever-enlarging membership has helped assure its survival yet its administrative structure, flexible enough to pro vide for growth and tight enough to ensure control, has received little attention. The essays that follow should […]
[…] the Relief Society, the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association, and the Primary Association had together made plans for a woman’s building for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “We want to have […]
[…] this gathering was probably unaware of its eighteenth-century antecedent, the famed “Bluestocking Clubs,” which flourished in London for nearly half a century. The same spirit which had earlier generated weekly gatherings of thinking women now […]
[…] with outsiders—and finally, and most of all, Juanita’s own story, growing up in this environment, going out for a schooling, and finally coming back to make her home in the Dixie country … . […]
[…] personal, finite being as the object of our devotion. Understandably, this conflict remains even in Mormon thought. For while Mormonism espouses an unrefined finitist theology, it is tempted to return to the Catholic/Protestant understanding […]
[…] taking virtually every grammar, academic, normal, and scientific class offered and receiving every certificate and diploma awarded. For the next four years, he continued to take classes, teaching part time for one year, full-time […]
Of course, when anyone asks me what my husband does for a living, I never say, “He builds nuclear weapons.” No one in Richland builds bombs. People here only teach school, fight fires, design […]
[…] the technique of literature. As a result, until recently, fiction with literary aspirations has occupied an uncom fortable no-man’s land. Although Peregrine Smith published Emma Lou Thayne’s idyllic celebration, Never Past the Gate (1975), […]
[…] serve unto thee in all things as a father’s blessing according to the flesh, and even more for it is given by him who is appointed a father to the fatherless and Patriarch over […]