Elsewhere in this issue Robert Flanders speaks of the New Mormon History as having begun in 1945 with the publication of Fawn Brodie’s No Man Knows My History. While Brodie’s book is certainly pivotal, an…
In its almost-square format, in its design and layout, its good-sized type and sepia toned pictures on stiff, just about grocery-bag-brown paper, Miller and Moffitt’s Provo is easily the most attractive and readable work […]
[…] of antisexual rhetoric, severe doubt was cast upon God’s wisdom or at least propriety for having made human propagation a function that at best was indelicate. Relatively perfunctory in their attacks on public vice, […]
[…] perhaps hung in the balance. Even without these elements, the fast-unfolding story was so bizarre and the human element so vividly reflected in the killer, his lover, his victims and their families, that the […]
[…] critics believe the press can deliver more thorough and believable news that show the positive dynamism of human affairs. Some virulent criticisms are overstated, yet no church should ignore them even if it is […]
[…] of God (as against J’s picture of a God treading the earth and concerning himself with specific human events). Latter-day Saint scholars should especially consider whether the international or desert influences suggested in E […]
Late in the summer of 1833 one Doctor Philastus Hurlbut, recently excommunicated from the Mormon church for “unchristianlike” conduct toward some of the sisters,[1] learned of a manuscript written some twenty years before by the late Reverend Solomon Spalding which was similar to the Book of Mormon. His interest piqued, he set out to investigate this story, principally through interviews with former residents of Conneaut, Ohio, where Spalding once had lived.
[…] hundred years. A hundred years seems a long time to wait for an egg, but in moulding human awareness it is no time at all. D. H. Lawrence says, Many ages of accumulated experience […]
[…] BYU. Though gaining a liberal education in the humanities at school, I received a liberal course in human nature at the hotel. Even among the fairest flowers of Zion, I discovered, love would find […]
[…] used here, a label is a stereotyped designation formally or informally conferred upon a person. Labels are human ways of placing people together in manageable, if not accurate, groupings. Many of our acts are […]