<i>Dialogue 29 .4 (Winter 1998):59–83</i><br>THE BOOK OF MORMON HAS OCCASIONALLY been portrayed as a deficient first novel. Its characters appear flat and stereotypical; the plots and characters seem to lack moral subtlety; and so […]
[…] sheer massiveness of the miracle traditions in the four Gospels. The large percentage of Gospel texts given over to miracles makes sweeping them under a respectable modern carpet unacceptable. Even if we do not […]
[…] Testament … and having never before read anything else but their Bible, they now read their Bible over and over again, and make all manner of great discoveries there.” Elsewhere in the same book, […]
[…] master Abraham, or the Levite’s concubine in Judges 19, whose name we never know, who was handed over to thugs to be raped and killed. When her master discovered that she was dead, he […]
[…] slap. Clair ducked behind the steps as Brother Pratt walked toward the dance. He called back, “Courtship’s over, Sofie. I’ll tell your pa when I see him in the field.” She waited for Sofie […]
[…] who helped President Moyle energize the missionary program, notes that he was “stubborn” and sometimes “went rough-shod over people.” Nathan Eldon Tanner, who moved into the First Presidency on the death of Henry Moyle, […]
[…] all so bad, after all. The batter for the pancakes was easy to make and we could buy margarine or jam, but the maple syrup was a different story. Most of the time we […]
<i>Dialogue 30. 3 (Fall 1999):90–103</i><br>To average LDS church members in 1909, Roberts’s New Witnesses for God substantiated their beliefs and further embellished his stature for them as a historian and defender of the Book […]
[…] collect a few tithing envelopes. Laurie always preferred mailing their 10 percent rather than publicly handing it over to the bishop during church like so many others. “Why doesn’t she just do that in […]
[…] May 1884, ordained an apostle on 7 October 1889, and served as Cache Stake president 1899-1901 to counter the Moses Thatcher faction in the Logan area. Melvin C. Merrill, ed., Utah Pioneer and Apostle: Marriner […]