[…] must be disguised, and one of the most useful ways to disguise change is to localize the writing of history—have everybody in the community do it and center it on kinship. This produces genealogical history […]
[…] with relief over the old site With its fearsome past all hauled away And talk with the service station man About his plans. Mrs. Thayne also writes of a distinctive Mormon society, the east […]
[…] voters as a separate proposition. Roberts fully agreed with Church leaders as to the political unwisdom of writing prohibition into the Constitution; however unlike the Presidency, he could not muster much enthusiasm for any […]
[…] start on the right path. He has finally laid aside the polemic which has characterized virtually all writing on evolution in the Church, although his bias is immediately clear and could be offensive to […]
[…] 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 Shakespeares of our own. God’s ammunition is not […]
[…] cheat themselves out of the supportive friendship so vital to marriage. In 29 years of thinking, teaching, writing and researching on marriage and the family—the last 20 years as a faculty member of the […]
[…] of Mary Bradford and Alice Pottmyer; respect for a manuscript submission process which not only selects quality writing for publication, but also makes the submission process itself learning experience (manuscripts are returned with individual […]
[…] white as alkali flats. He was her brother, and when he pushed aside the oleander branches to get to her door, her energy bugled at the prospect of a new quarrel. What else would […]
[…] from a work by Dr. Islay Burns (at one time a Professor of Church History, Free Church College, Glasgow). He writes: It is the year 101 of the Christian era. The last of the […]
[…] around. Because the needs of the branch may be so severe, the convert is often pressed into service without proper training or experience. Sometimes there is no one in the branch, even among its […]