From its early years on the social fringe,” U.S. News & World Report I recently told its readers, the Mormon Church “has become America’s largest and wealthiest home-grown religion by offering shelter in stormy […]
[…] it myself. He said that he found it only marginally helpful in answering some questions, because the English in DIALOGUE was too difficult for him to read and understand. I talked with him about […]
[…] the magnificent Christus dominating the visitors’ centers in Salt Lake and Mesa. Several years ago, the Church News grandly announced that the marble from which the second copy in Mesa was made was “imported.” […]
[…] back from the dead growth at the sides of the road like an invisible horde keeping pace, breaking into a run when I did and staying precisely even with me. But except for the […]
[…] a Christian nation down the road to atheism. (“President McKay,” 1963) This statement, released to the Church News immediately following the announcement of the decision, contained no further explanatory comment. President McKay’s remarks reflect […]
[…] Helen froze. “Lands alive, child,” exclaimed Amy after a long pause. “I bet you haven’t prayed in English before. Go ahead and pray in your own language.” Still confused, Helen began to pray in […]
[…] 14. Ibid., p. 15. R. V. Chamberlin, ed., Philosophy of W. H. Chamberlin (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1925), pp. 321-22. Joseph Fielding Smith in an interview with G. E. Tickemyer in Salt […]
[…] Pa asked. She looked Pa straight in the eye. “I hid it.” “You what?” “You’re welcome to search my house. You can turn out every drawer and every cupboard. You can tear up the […]
[…] a legend before her retirement, called again. Would she? She would. Now she is on Monday’s noon news with a “Good Friends” feature, chatting over the fence of a home in the Marmalade District […]
[…] the freedom I just mentioned. There is a higher use to which freedom can be put than breaking rules. Rules vary from mission president to mission president within the same mission, and from mission […]