[…] on his black article and was close to his family. Alice was the editor of our ward newsletter, and I knew of her considerable experience in publishing magazines and newsletters before her marriage. Royal […]
[…] blessings which the church offers to the type I identify with. Symbols for the two types c ame from the Book of Mormon—from Lehi’s dream, the Iron Rod, and from Lehi’s experience in the […]
Between 1972 and 1982 I was part of the te am of historians located in the Church Office Building under the direction of Leonard J. Arrington. It was a golden decade—a brief period of […]
[…] but the question deserves closer scrutiny. No longer are we “a peculiar people,” clearly segregated from mainstre am America by our early Mormon Zionism, our cooperative economy, and our polygamous practices. Individual Mormons fit […]
[…] about what is involved. Der Stern, the Church’s official monthly publication for German-speaking members, used its “Church News” section to praise the Uniform Translation as a “text . . . which not only reads […]
[…] a first cousin once removed from President Spencer Woolley Kimball (which doesn’t mean much in a f amily as extended as ours), I considered myself a sort of shirt-tail relative. That is, I was […]
[…] He took to the sea (Halkin is very near the coast) at age seventeen and immigrated to America about 1840. He operated a small steam vessel, The Ripple, on the Mississippi and later became […]
[…] the interpretative literature of religious studies is surpassed by no one within the field of whom I am aware. In Mormonism she has attempted to do two things. First, she has tried as faith […]
[…] teas. At least some of this interest can be attributed to Mormon appreciation of the Old Test ament, a feeling of kinship with the Jews, and a belief that the Law of Moses included […]
[…] follow the rule and devote my remarks to gospel subjects. This is difficult to do because I am very proud of my son and have deep feelings of gratitude and joy relating to the […]