[…] his party’s nomination for Congress, and was elected in 1962 as a member of Utah’s congressional delegation. Breaking ranks doomed my grandfather’s leadership role in Utah Republican politics. He accepted that, affirmed that the […]
[…] yet really my own. It is convenient and sensible to stay in a church when one knows that breaking a strong and successful legacy will scar family relationships. More to the point, if security is […]
[…] (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987), 138-61; Richard L. Jensen, “Mother Tongue: Use of Non- English Languages in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United States, 1850-1983,” in […]
[…] church over the past decade—never have the Saints lived in more interesting times. The recent whirlwind of world political changes has opened up mission fields undreamed of only a few years ago, faster almost […]
[…] still available from more public sources. In a few cases, furthermore, local church leaders were willing to share what they knew (if only anonymously) out of personal trust in an author’s judgment, balance, and […]
[…] Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 6 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1930), 1:218. Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, […]
[…] he was rigging up a radio to an old car battery so he could listen to KNXT news radio while he worked. *** Two weeks after getting my driver’s license, I was in an […]
[…] translations newer than the Authorized Version—the King James Version, the official Bible of the LDS church in English—omit the Comma, almost without exception. For example, the official LDS translation of the Bible in German […]
[…] years, my exit from the ward doors to see what I could see in the big wide world? Why not talk about my en counters with other “isms”—Taoism, Buddhism, humanism, existential ism, fundamentalism, Sufism, […]
[…] atmosphere of criticism, one might yet find acceptance from God’s leader(s) and congregation through obedience. Bending or breaking away from religion creates conflict, for one not only leaves the continued experience of symbolic parental love, […]